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Isn't Claude Code's selling point that it doesn't use embeddings?
I don’t think that “Claude Code” is relevant to this semantic grep tool.
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Re: Show HN: Semantic grep with local embeddings
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Agreed - Logan is a legend, this is similar but simpler - no dependency on external models (might add it)
We really are living in the golden age of the terminal. I thought this would take a chunk out of Typescript/node marketshare of young coders, but i'm starting to see more and more of these animals building TUIs using nothing but npm packages. Have they no shame?
Last week I built my own CLI coding agent tool using just nodejs and zero dependencies! It is a lot of fun to build, really, I think everyone should try it out
Re: Show HN: Semantic grep with local embeddings
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn't Claude Code's selling point that it doesn't use embeddings?
I don’t think that “Claude Code” is relevant to this semantic grep tool.
bear in mind that Claude Code by default uses grep - if you watch you'll see if it's looking for something it doesn't know the name of, it flails around with different patterns. Try this tool, tell CC to take a look using ck --help and take it for a spin.
CC in my case likes it so much, it started using it to debug the repo rather than grep and suggesting its own additions
Re: Show HN: Semantic grep with local embeddings
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don’t think that “Claude Code” is relevant to this semantic grep tool.
bear in mind that Claude Code by default uses grep - if you watch you'll see if it's looking for something it doesn't know the name of, it flails around with different patterns. Try this tool, tell CC to take a look using ck --help and take it for a spin. CC in my case likes it so much, it started using it to debug the repo rather than grep and suggesting its own additions
Note that it’s grep AND semantic - so Claude can start with a grep strategy and if it finds nothing can switch to semantic, and since it’s local and fast, it keeps in sync easily enough
Re: Show HN: Semantic grep with local embeddings
#15At this point, we aren't even saying it's written in Rust anymore, we just mention it in the title whenever possible.
I did look into the core features and I gotta say, that looked quite cool. It's like Google search, but for the codebase. What does it take to support other languages?
Re: Show HN: Semantic grep with local embeddings
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don’t think that “Claude Code” is relevant to this semantic grep tool.
bear in mind that Claude Code by default uses grep - if you watch you'll see if it's looking for something it doesn't know the name of, it flails around with different patterns. Try this tool, tell CC to take a look using ck --help and take it for a spin. CC in my case likes it so much, it started using it to debug the repo rather than grep and suggesting its own additions
How do you tell CC to use it? Just as an entry in Claude.md?
Re: Show HN: Semantic grep with local embeddings
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
bear in mind that Claude Code by default uses grep - if you watch you'll see if it's looking for something it doesn't know the name of, it flails around with different patterns. Try this tool, tell CC to take a look using ck --help and take it for a spin. CC in my case likes it so much, it started using it to debug the repo rather than grep and suggesting its own additions
How do you tell CC to use it? Just as an entry in Claude.md?
To start with just tell it- but yes Claude.md works too.
“We have a new grep semantic hybrid tool installed called ck - check it out using ck --help and take it for a spin”
Re: Show HN: Semantic grep with local embeddings
#18This looks very useful.
Looks like you have to build an index. When should it be rebuilt? Any support for automatic rebuilds?
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#19This generalizes to a whole new category of tools: UX which requires more thought and skill, but is way more powerful. Human devs are mostly too lazy to use, but LLMs will put in the work to use them.
Re: Show HN: Semantic grep with local embeddings
#20At this point, we aren't even saying it's written in Rust anymore, we just mention it in the title whenever possible. I did look into the core features and I gotta say, that looked quite cool. It's like Google search, but for the codebase. What does it take to support other languages?
It supports most languages but needs a bit of tree-sitter setup to do semantic chunking. Let me know what languages you’d like added