Actually, I haven't used JetBrains, didn't know they did something similar until now!

This came from a different angle I read about how the human brain operates on ~20 watts yet processes information incredibly efficiently. That got me thinking about how developers naturally encode semantics into folder structures without realizing it.

The "cognitive" framing is because we're already doing the work of organizing code meaningfully Mantic.sh just searches that existing structure instead of recreating it as embeddings. Turns out path-based search is just efficient pattern matching, which explains why it's so fast.

Interesting to hear JetBrains converged on a similar approach from the IDE side though!