alt Hacker NewsGrep is effective for the most part, except for situations like when you have huge codebases and the thing you're looking for is used in too many places both as symbol and non-symbol.
Another annoying thing about plain grep is, LLMs often end up pulling in bundled packages when using grep where 1 line is large enough to ruin the context window
> Grep is effective for the most part
It's very effective in well-written and well-designed code bases where concepts tend to be relatively well formed to not be named the same as everything else, so grepping for symbols give you good search results.
Projects where the god-object or core concepts are generic names like "Tree", "Node" or other things that are used everywhere, tends to be short of impossible to search with grep and friends.