> and it felt "hacky" I think the pattern that coined "RAG" is outdated, that pattern being relying on cosine similarities against an index.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

> and it felt "hacky" I think the pattern that coined "RAG" is outdated, that pattern being relying on cosine similarities against an index.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.