top | item 46664542 (no title) harikb | 1 month ago Recently, all these agents can talk LSP (language server protocol) so it should get better soon. That said, yeah they don't seem to default to use `ripgrep` when that is clearly better than `grep` discuss order hn newest virtualritz|1 month ago What you really want is ast-grep[1].Ripgrep is much faster than grep. But the result is not more concise and tokens are wasted.I think codex uses ast-grep by default, if installed; Claude has to be instructed?[1] https://ast-grep.github.io/ wahnfrieden|1 month ago Codex likes to use ripgrep. je42|1 month ago Claudes search tool uses Ripgrep , which is embedded in Claude.
virtualritz|1 month ago What you really want is ast-grep[1].Ripgrep is much faster than grep. But the result is not more concise and tokens are wasted.I think codex uses ast-grep by default, if installed; Claude has to be instructed?[1] https://ast-grep.github.io/
wahnfrieden|1 month ago Codex likes to use ripgrep. je42|1 month ago Claudes search tool uses Ripgrep , which is embedded in Claude.
virtualritz|1 month ago
Ripgrep is much faster than grep. But the result is not more concise and tokens are wasted.
I think codex uses ast-grep by default, if installed; Claude has to be instructed?
[1] https://ast-grep.github.io/
wahnfrieden|1 month ago
je42|1 month ago