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I know how popular Steve Yegge is, and there is a bunch of stuff he's written in the past that I've enjoyed, but like, what is this? I know everyone says the In
by hn_throwaway_99 2y ago
I know how popular Steve Yegge is, and there is a bunch of stuff he's written in the past that I've enjoyed, but like, what is this? I know everyone says the Internet has ruined our attention spans, but I think it's fair to let the reader know what the point of your article is fairly early on.
As far as I can tell, this is a really unnecessarily long-winded article that is basically just "make sure you have good prompt context." And yes, when you're doing RAG, you need to make sure you pull the right data for your context.
Is this just a spam blog post for Sourcegraph?
- devmor 2y agoThe semi-obvious conclusion here is that he had an idea and asked an LLM to write an article about it, in his own style.
- 9question1 2y agoIt's an ad. The key point he works up to is `Put another way, you need a sidecar database. The data moat needs to be fast and queryable. This is a Search Problem!` And then of course this is hosted on the corporate blog of a code search platform. It's `make sure you have good prompt context` but trying to define that specifically as the thing they're selling
- hn_throwaway_99 2y agoAs another commenter said, this needs a March 2023 tag. RAG is now pretty standard and their are lots of vector databases that do this.
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