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zmccormick7

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About zmccormick7

RAG/LLM enthusiast

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    Good to know. I've heard great things about Context7, but haven't experimented with it yet.

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    Comment #45222332

    As in the download itself didn't happen when you clicked the download button, or the installation failed?

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    Cool, I hadn't heard of Traycer. That does look quite similar! Completely agree. I basically built Runner to codify the process I was already using manually with Claude Code and Ge…

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    I agree that's a major problem. It's not something I've solved yet. I suspect a web research sub-agent is likely what's needed, so it can pull in up-to-date docs for whatever libra…

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    Gemini is required for the context management sub-agent. You can use any of OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini for the main planning and coding agents, but GPT-5 performs the best in my …

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    Show HN: Runner – the anti-vibe coding agent

    Now that AI is capable of writing large volumes of production-quality code, our role as developers is changing. Our primary job is no longer writing code. It’s planning and communi…

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    The main thing we need to add is metadata filtering, as that's required for a lot of use cases. We're also thinking about adding hybrid search support and multi-factor ranking.

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    We've only done full benchmarking with the FIQA dataset, comparing minDB with Chroma. We're going to try it with Qdrant and Weaviate soon too, since they both have support for quan…

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    Comment #41069576

    Agreed that thresholds don't work when applied to the cosine similarity of embeddings. But I have found that the similarity score returned by high-quality rerankers, especially Coh…

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    Comment #41058553

    Agreed. Retrieval performance is very dependent on the quality of the search queries. Letting the LLM generate the search queries is much more reliable than just embedding the user…

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    Comment #40867532

    I had the same issue when searching for specific companies/products. It feels like a pretty basic vector search with no hybrid search component or reranking.

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    Comment #40266858

    That should work well with the default parameters, so you shouldn't have to do anything special.

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    That description is a little vague, so I need to improve that. The use cases we're focused on are ones with 1) dense unstructured text, like legal documents, financial reports, and…

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    Comment #40250319

    I think the difference is that they're building for end users, not developers.

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    Agreed. I've gotten a lot of feedback along those lines today, so that's my top priority now.

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    Comment #40242119

    So the point of AutoContext is so you don't have to do that two-step process of first finding the right document, and then finding the right section of that document. I think it's …

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    That's a great question. I'll start with a little context: most of the users of our existing hosted platform are no-code/low-code developers who choose us because we're the simples…

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    Comment #40240965

    I think spRAG should be pretty well suited for that use case. I think the biggest challenge will be generating specific search queries off of more general user inputs. You can look…