You need a vector db because all the vector db companies need customers... You definitely do need information retrieval. It just shouldn't be limited to vector

You need a vector db because all the vector db companies need customers... You definitely do need information retrieval. It just shouldn't be limited to vector dbs. Unfortunately vector db companies and the VCs that back them have flooded the internet with propaganda suggesting vector db is the only choice. https://colinharman.substack.com/p/beware-tunnel-vision-in-ai-retrieval https://colinharman.substack.com/p/beware-tunnel-vision-in-a... For most serious use cases, you'll have far too much data to fit into 1 (or several) inference contexts.