> I've heard it argued that this is an antipattern. If the file is large, it will read the whole file. With Read or something similar, it can do a targeted search and read only the relevant portion.

I suspect you're right and that's why they haven't fixed @-search in the desktop app.

I actually don't find myself using it anymore since moving to the desktop app. I went from using various AI extensions in the IDE to Claude Code desktop.

But if that's accurate, why mention it in this post? Maybe because that's the first thing developers will try when moving away from a code editor?