AI Coding Agents Search Like It's 2009. Provenant Cuts Tokens by 65 . (opens in new tab)

Here's what happens every time you ask an AI coding agent a question: It greps your codebase It returns 15 files It stuffs ~69,000 tokens of raw source code into your context window It answers your question using maybe 3 of those files You pay for all 69,000 tokens anyway This is BM25 keyword search on raw source code. It's the same algorithm that powered web search in 2009. And it's still the shape of most coding-agent retrieval systems: keyword search, grep, file search, context stuffing. I...