search tools
1 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 2, 2026 by Simon Willison · across every show →
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Apr 2, 2026 positive
Willison: Coding agents search local repositories to synthesize relevant code
“Coding agents can do searches. So you can give them access to an entire hard drive full of stuff and tell them what you need to solve, and they will run search tools to find just the examples that they need to piece things together.”