Do AI coding agents really understand large codebases?
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AI coding agents can write code quickly but things get complicated when a project has many services APIs and dependencies. Sometimes an agent changes one small thing without understanding what else might break. I wonder if giving agents a clear map of the codebase could make their work more reliable. How do you help AI agents understand your projects before letting them make changes?
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a map helps but it goes stale the week after you write it.. what held up better for us was moving the rules that matter out of the rules file into hooks, since a line in a file gets skipped and a hook doesn't. and a commit after every step, so when it breaks something three services away the diff is small enough to find. how do you keep the map current?