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by mksglu 114 days ago
On Tantivy: Agree it's the better search engine, but context-mode is session-scoped — DB is a temp file that dies when the process exits. At that scale (50-200 chunks), FTS5 is zero-config, single-file, <1ms startup, and good enough. If we ever add persistent cross-session indexing, Tantivy would be the move.

On benchmarking: This is the experiment I most want to see. The hypothesis: context-mode benefits smaller models disproportionately — a 32K model with clean context could outperform a 200K model drowning in raw tool output. Would love to see SWE-bench results with context-mode on vs. off across model tiers.