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Difficulty Navigating and Understanding Large Codebases

Developers working in large, polyglot codebases struggle to navigate source efficiently, especially when onboarding teammates with the right context. Existing IDE features and emerging tools (e.g. DeepWiki, Code Mind Map) only partially solve wayfinding through unfamiliar code.

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