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by heyhuy 385 days ago
> and it felt "hacky"

I think the pattern that coined "RAG" is outdated, that pattern being relying on cosine similarities against an index. It was a stop gap for the 4K token window era. For AI copilots, I love Claude Code, Cline's approach of just following imports and dependencies naturally. Land on a file and let it traverse.

No more crossing your fingers with match consign and hoping your reranker did drop a critical piece.