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Cursor's codebase index can't tell you what breaks
Cursor's codebase index uses semantic search, not dependency analysis. Tuning with .cursorignore speeds up indexing but doesn't reveal which repos break when you change a shared module. The gap between similarity search and actual dependency mapping remains unfixed.
Meridian48 take
The article correctly identifies a fundamental limitation of embedding-based code search that no amount of tuning can overcome.
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