Arjun Krishnamurthy

Staff engineer at a developer tools startup in Bangalore, specializing in large-scale code indexing and search infrastructure. Previously 4 years at Sourcegraph working on Cody's core retrieval pipeline. Writes about code understanding, multi-repo search, and the engineering tradeoffs nobody talks about publicly.

2 articles by Arjun Krishnamurthy.

• AI Codebase Understanding
• Code Review & Automation
• Developer Experience

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  Cyclomatic Complexity: What the Score Actually Means

  July 21, 2026

  Cyclomatic complexity counts the paths through a function, not how hard it is to read. Here is where the 10 threshold comes from, why tools disagree, and how to gate it without blocking your team.

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  AI Technical Debt Is Two Debts Your Team Is Not Tracking

  July 14, 2026

  AI technical debt is not just duplicated code. It is the gap between how fast AI generates and how well your team still understands the system.