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The burden is on those products to compel you, not you to break a force of habit. :)

Code search historically has been adopted by <10% of devs, although it's usually binary within each company, with equilibriums at both ~1% adoption or >80%+ adoption. My model of LLMs applied to code search is that they make it so even a first-time user can use (easily, via the LLM) features that were previously only accessible to power users: regexps, precise code navigation, large-scale changes/refactors, diff search, other advanced search filters, and all kinds of other code metadata (ownership, dep graph, observability, deployment, runtime perf, etc.) that the code search engine knows. The code search engine itself is just used under the hood by the LLM to answer questions and write great code that uses your own codebase's conventions.

I bet you (and the ~90% of devs who don't use code search today) will be compelled when you see and use /that/.




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