Dev uses AI to unearth a deeply buried repo his idea would collide with
dfinke · x · 2026-10-11
Developer dfinke shares a striking AI retrieval anecdote: after a talk sparked an idea during Q&A, he asked AI to check whether anyone was already building it. AI surfaced a repo buried deep in a massive org's codebase — named nothing like the topic, written by someone connected to the speaker. He notes he'd never have found it manually, highlighting AI's unique value in cross-domain information discovery.
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