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Developer finds Grep outperforms custom code graph

The developer of auto-ontology-mcp, a semantic layer functioning as an MCP server, found that the 1973-era Grep command outperformed their code graph in specific scenarios. This led to the deletion of their code graph in favor of first optimizing against the established baseline. AI

RANK_REASON The item is a personal anecdote about a developer's experience comparing their own tool to a legacy command-line utility, lacking broader industry significance.

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Developer finds Grep outperforms custom code graph

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · arctic_vergil ·

    auto-ontology-mcp: a semantic layer as an MCP server. Climbing fast. I built a code graph once. Then I benchmarked it against grep. grep. The thing from 1973. I

    auto-ontology-mcp: a semantic layer as an MCP server. Climbing fast. I built a code graph once. Then I benchmarked it against grep. grep. The thing from 1973. It won in narrow cases. I deleted mine. Beat the boring baseline first. # LLM # AI