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woahyesterday at 7:21 PM1 replyview on HN

You do not know of prominent robust implementations? This is how Claude Code, GPT Codex, etc have worked for a couple years. And they do tend to be impressively good at navigating large amounts of text.


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mdp2021yesterday at 9:12 PM

Thank you, no, I did not know that. Where have you found the info? Sebastian Raschka, Anthropic/OpenAI blogs?

(BTW: you made me realize - I had to take "time off" for over half a year... I am sure I missed a lot.)

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Edit: for clarity: for "full text search" we remain on the interpretation of "searching for literal substrings" - and whether plain user provided keywords list or LLM enriched list based on the former, and whether more or less successful, it remains a syntactic search quite distinct from a semantic one. Having an LLM enrich the original keywords list can be a good idea, but the possibility of misses remains when compared to a properly working semantic search.

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