Reading up on ripgrep

The author rebuilt their development workstation around terminal-native tools like WezTerm, tmux, and Neovim to support agentic workflows with parallel human-agent collaboration across Git worktrees.

Ranking search results to surface definitions before tests and vendor code improves first-query retrieval and helps coding agents find the right files sooner, while raw speed gains alone barely reduce end-to-end runtime.

Cursor is building local indexes for regular expression search to reduce agent wait times from 15-second ripgrep runs in large monorepos.