Context Buddy: the tool that knows your code better than you

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Tool reconstructs code history at the token level and claims it finds who added or changed specific tokens across reformatting, using token-level history built from git plus scalameta and semanticdb for semantic symbols. It ships a working IntelliJ plugin (open smart history), an SBT/CI pipeline for semantic indexing, and a hoarder-like zinc cache to speed builds; large repos bootstrap in minutes. Review Buddy and graph visualizations exist and expose symbol provenance, dependency evictions and which developers touched a feature. Some advanced features remain experimental.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:12Questions
3. 1:57Context Buddy
4. 2:26Reading the code
5. 5:09Source control
6. 6:11ID
7. 6:42Spyder
8. 7:27Java
9. 8:55Legacy code
10. 16:51Context Body
11. 17:28Small Beaver
12. 18:24Trace fossils
13. 20:24Map howl
14. 25:11Semantic information
15. 27:08Future of Context Buddy
16. 34:19Survivorship Bias
17. 36:50QA
18. 39:46SBT plugin
19. 44:21Sources of information

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