I’m working on a tool that is a more token-efficient code search than grep. I don’t have hard numbers yet, but it’s been working for me to get longer sessions. https://github.com/ebcode/SourceMinder

Oh nice! Thank you, I will definitely give this a shot.

I was looking at tree-sitter myself for this task.

It's still in beta, and I'm hoping to get more feedback, so feel free to post in the issues or reach out directly if you run into any problems.

so, “yes false Scotsman”?

That’s why we’ve got the tenth.

Can anyone tell me what Yegge is on, so I can try some? Is it just money/tokens?

too bad about all the ads, this is an excellent comparison of the ends of both Dutch and American empires

Mr. Smith (GN) goes to Washington (Palantir).

SourceMinder: A “code index” tool that finds symbols in a codebase and creates a single table sqlite database for the index. It uses tree-sitter to parse the AST and add the symbols and what they are (function, class, argument, etc) to the db. I currently have it working with TypeScript, C, Go and PHP. I’m working on adding Perl next, after someone requested it here on HN.

https://github.com/ebcode/SourceMinder

Yep! Java, Perl, and Ruby are all on the to-do list. I’ll start with Perl since you asked. And it takes me about two weeks to implement a new language. Check back in January.

Wow, I'm flattered. Looking forward. Thanks!

Good luck!

> A 10% improvement every month gets to be a 10x improvement in (math...)

1.1^24=9.85, so yeah, if you could reliably get a 10% speed-up each month, you’d get to 10x in roughly 2 years. (But I’d expect the speed-up per month to be non-linear.)

it would be hard to account for model / agentic capability increases in the next 2 years, b/c which side of multiple Nx on its own is hard to predict