heapsort
ARTICLE27

RAG Series (24): Code RAG — Teaching AI to Understand Your Codebase

DEV.to AI·May 21, 2026

This article critiques common "code RAG" implementations for treating code as plain text, which destroys vital structural and relational information. It proposes that effective code RAG models must capture code's semantics, structure, and call relationships to properly understand a codebase.

Read original