World knowledge also means knowing the various algorithms and ways particular programming problems are solved.

You can't search what you don't even know exists.

>You can't search what you don't even know exists.

that's not really entirely true -- one can google for "fast pathfinding' and stumble upon A-star , all that had to be queried was the intent/desire.

a lot of smaller agentic models and a lot of harnesses live on that premise.

Path finding is a very closed and well defined problem.