boyter
Joined 16 years ago
Joined 16 years ago
Cursor was an interesting case where they were maintaining an index. I think everyone has converged on not doing that, which is where I started, with BM25 with some tweaks on top.
Notable link related to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnmtJKFonLk where Jo Kristian Bergum (notable in the search space) agrees with BM25 being a good approach for agentic workflows.
If you do hook this up please let me know, id love to write about it.
Id like to see that fork. Perhaps I can fold some of it in.
Let me know if it fails in some area and I’ll fix it.
I think John turned out to be right in the end. They did seem to patch things up with John appearing on a episode years later I think "a christmas miracle" was the title, but that was the last time he was on as far as I know.