grep

3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Sep 11, 2025 by Lance Martin · said 6 times in 5 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Sep 11, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Martin: Claude Code operates entirely without codebase indexing
“Clock code doesn't do any indexing. It's just doing, quote unquote, agentic retrieval, just using simple tool calls, for example, using grep, to kind of poke around your files, no indexing whatsoever, and obviously works extremely well.”
Lance Martin Sep 11, 2025 ▶ 17:02 Context Engineering for Agents - Lance Martin, LangChain
Dec 26, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chen: Codex performs better when search tools are named 'rg' over 'grep'
“So if you call it grep, it actually does a little bit Worse. But if you call it RG, it actually does really well.”
Bill Chen Dec 26, 2025 ▶ 8:24 ⚡️GPT5-Codex-Max: Training Agents with Personality, Tools & Trust — Brian Fioca + Bill Chen, OpenAI
May 28, 2026 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Yan: Agent VM grep is slow due to S3-backed network file systems
“A lot of these virtual machines actually underlying them don't use real file systems. They use these like network file systems where things are actually cached over the network actually in S three. So when you're grepping, you're actually making network calls …”
Walden Yan May 28, 2026 ▶ 49:33 Devin’s 80% Moment: Background Agents, 7x PRs, & End of Hand-Held Coding — Walden Yan & Cole Murray
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