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> Why do you think you need semantic indexing?

Unfortunately I can only give an anecdotal answer here, but I get better results from Cursor than the alternatives. The semantic index is the main difference, so I assume that's what's giving it the edge.

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Is it a very large codebase? Anything else distinctive about it? Are you often asking high-level/conceptual questions? Those are the questions that would help me understand why you might be seeing better results with RAG.

I'll ask something like "where does X happen?" But "X" isn't mentioned anywhere in the code because the code is a complete nightmare.

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