Do AI coding tools actually solve the structured enterprise context problem or do they just demo well on clean repos
Summary
Analyzes the overlooked issue of stale embeddings in AI coding tools at enterprise scale, where clean demo environments hide the problem of repository graph drift and technical debt accumulation.
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