Current AIs can rapidly build context for a codebase task by using many subagents to inspect material and report back, then investigating further; the process can work reasonably well but is not yet excellent.

“understanding a code base for like a day or something um but now you know ais are much better at like sort of building context about a task and so you can be like mythos i want you to really understand this code base and then um you know then implement this feature and it will like spawn a bajillion sub agents those sub agents will pour over a bunch of things it will like deliver a bunch of context back it will then like investigate a few things and it's not like amazing at doing this but it's like it can happen like really fast and it can work”

“pretty well.”