[anonylizard]

Yeah, and the quality of the 'marketing writing' is good and informative. Because A16z can afford high quality writing...

These 'emerging stack' articles do promote their own companies, but are nevertheless useful for newcomers into a field, to quickly grasp the process and the players. If you don't like it, compile your own version.

I've used some companies recommended in their data architecture and it worked very well.

[refulgentis]

Hot take: I think the fact vector DBs are even a hot field with multiple competitors speaks to the bending of the branches due to VC weight, so to speak. These things take ~40 LOC and 3 hours to write yourself, they can process ~20 pages/seconds ms, locally, on devices from 3 years ago that fit in your pocket. Having it hosted is a massive privacy risk. Yet how many vector DBs as companies articles have we seen, and how many ONNX tutorials have we seen?

[dboreham]

Ah the "I could write that in a weekend and still go camping" 1000X developer.

[refulgentis]

https://github.com/Telosnex/fonnx - note thats on 6, count em, 6 platforms, and I need to write 4 implementations (Swift/Kotlin/C++/JS). I'm not kidding. Maybe 4 hours. It's trivial. 93 lines of code. And its extremely rote. Allocate X input arrays. Call run. Pull out Y output arrays. Free. https://github.com/Telosnex/fonnx/blob/6d3d80be136002ae28ce2...

[mrcode007]

He’s not wrong, you know ?

[refulgentis]

thank you for writing this. even with showing my work, was still downvoted below 1 on both comments. that flipped considerably after your comment.