akras14
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Comment · 2 days ago
Yes, I was thinking the same thing! We can stop here and our lives would still be forever transformed.
Comment · 29 days ago
They are not killing the vector database or vector search. They are killing the vector-primary storage layout.
The post itself says ANN becomes “just another” secondary index, and that v3 should make vector search faster along with text and regex.
“RIP, vector-primary index” would have been accurate. “RIP, vector database” is marketing.
Comment · 1 month ago
I was an EM at Evernote through the first six months after the close (notifications team).
Left in May 2023, before they shut the US/Chile offices. The sequence was pretty consistent: cut every vendor they could (Zoom disappeared overnight), get to profitable on costs, then raise prices on lock-in.
Personal went from ~$70/year to $130 pretty fast.
The product is still alive; the company that built it is not. They were effective. It was also obvious early that most of us were not part of the long-term plan.
I wrote it up here:
https://alexkras.com/my-last-six-months-at-evernote-after-be...
Comment · 2 months ago
I too keep setting Opus 4.6 manually in my daily work (when I am not using older Sonnet).
Comment · 2 months ago
Fixed now, thank you.
Comment · 2 months ago
Yes, author here. I was thinking about it more after the post.
I wonder if the harness has a bigger share of blame here than the model itself.
I seem to like using Opus 5 in the browsers a lot more... I.e. it was very helpful in fine-tuning my site after it went down due to HN traffic.
Comment · 2 months ago
Thank you!
Comment · 2 months ago
It did help eventually :)
Comment · 2 months ago
Fixed now, I did use Opus 5 to help me fine tune it :)
Will probably follow up with another blog post about that soon.
Comment · 1 year ago
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