Comment by cedws
Thanks, I was also wondering why they don't use RAG.
Thanks, I was also wondering why they don't use RAG.
I forgot to mention that Aider uses a tree sitter approach. It's blazing fast and great for quick changes. It's not the greatest agent for doing heavy edits but I don't it has to do with them not using grep.
They are using RAG. Grep is also just RAG. The better question is why they don’t use a vector database and honestly the answer is that these things are incredibly hard to keep in sync. And if they are not perfectly in sync, the utility drops quickly.