Programming Tutorials

  The era of "chatting with your code" is over. We have entered the era of   Agentic Engineering . For CTOs and Engineering Leads managing decade-old monoliths—where a single variable change can crash production services three layers deep—the choice of AI tooling isn't about productivity; it is about risk mitigation. You are likely stuck in analysis paralysis between  Manus AI  (representing the new wave of fully autonomous agents) and  Windsurf  (Codeium’s IDE that emphasizes "Flow" and deep context). This article strips away the marketing hype to analyze how these tools function within the constraints of massive, undocumented legacy repositories. We will provide a technical framework for choosing the right tool and a custom engineered solution to bridge the gap between them. The Core Problem: The Context Window vs. The Dependency Graph The frustration your team feels isn't just about AI hallucinations; it is a fundamental architectural mismatch. Most LLM-...