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Windsurf Codemaps

November 05, 2025 View original thread

Windsurf Codemaps

actually this makes a ton of sense — if vibe coding only works on small/non-complex projects, then the answer is to tackle complexity directly

Codemaps uses LLMs to create an “index” over your code, a map of where things are

cognition.ai/blog/codemaps

A hand-drawn style line graph titled “Your coding ability is constrained by your codebase understanding.”
• Y-axis: “Complexity of Codebase / Tasks you can Prompt.”
• X-axis: “Time.”
• The main black curve rises gradually, plateaus, then steeply increases again — labeled “Your max coding ability.”

Three additional annotated elements:
• Red dashed line: “Limits of Manual Understanding,” showing how traditional comprehension plateaus early.
• Green arrows: “Vibe coding uplift” (small early improvement) and later “Code understanding uplift” (larger improvement).
• Blue dashed line: “Codemaps Understanding scales w/ model intelligence,” rising linearly and surpassing the red limit.

The diagram visually conveys that while manual understanding limits progress, model-assisted tools like Codemaps expand coding capability by improving codebase comprehension over time.

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ngl this feels like the future of all agents, not just coding agents

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