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AI Coding Assistants Write 66% Less Code With Helix Code Intelligence

See how Helix Code Intelligence reduces generated code by 66% and improves security by helping AI coding assistants find and reuse your internal authentication libraries instead of rewriting them from scratch.

AI coding assistants hallucinate when they can't see your internal libraries. They rewrite authentication from scratch instead of using your tested, secure shared code.

In this demo, Phil Winder indexes an internal auth library with Helix Code Intelligence, then reruns the same task. The result: 66% fewer lines of code in the core implementation, no unnecessary dependencies, and proper reuse of established security patterns.

The problem

Authentication is hard, and asking an LLM to write authentication code is risky because it doesn't know what standards your enterprise implements. In a typical enterprise setup, a shared auth library implements secure, reliable, and tested authentication helper functions that all projects must use. Without visibility into that library, an AI coding assistant plans to write all of the authentication code itself, developing it entirely from scratch. The result: around 300 lines of core authentication code, unexpected library imports, and changes leaking into the domain layer where they don't belong.

The fix

Phil connects Helix Code Intelligence and indexes the internal authentication repository. Running the exact same task again produces a fundamentally different result. The agent discovers and imports the internal auth library, producing around 100 lines of core code instead of 300. That's a 66% reduction. The design is simpler, with fewer files and no unnecessary dependencies.

What the video covers

  • Why AI coding assistants rewrite authentication from scratch instead of reusing existing libraries
  • A side-by-side comparison of pull requests with and without codebase indexing
  • How Helix Code Intelligence indexes your public and private repositories for AI agents
  • The measurable difference: 300 lines reduced to 100 in core authentication code
  • Why reusing established security patterns matters more than just saving lines of code

If your AI coding assistants keep reimplementing authentication instead of using your battle-tested shared libraries, this demo shows exactly how to fix that.