Your LLM Is Wrong. Your Codebase Is Why.

It happened on a Tuesday. I asked my AI coding assistant to explain a function I'd written three months earlier. It described a function that doesn't exist. Not a total hallucination. The function did exist. Just not by that name, not with those parameters, not doing what the model confidently told me it was doing. The model had assembled a plausible story from vague signals and filled the gaps with fiction. My first instinct was to blame the model. My second instinct, the one that actually he...