Every time I watched an AI coding assistant work on a large TypeScript project, I noticed the same pattern. It wanted to answer something simple like: "Where is this hook defined?" "Who calls this function?" "What's the type of this value?" Instead of reading a single symbol, it often opened an entire file. Sometimes that meant loading 50 KB... sometimes 100 KB... just to extract a 30-line function. Multiply that by dozens of requests during a coding session, and you quick...