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Largest repo I used with Cursor was about 600,000 lines long


that's a good metric to aim for... creating a full local index for 600k lines is pretty expensive but there are a bunch of huristics which can take us pretty far

- looking at git commits - making use of recently accesses files - keyword search

If I set these constraints and allow for maybe around 2 LLM round trips we can get pretty far in terms of performance.




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