vector database
also referred to as: vector databases
7 statements across 6 episodes · 1 bullish · 5 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Apr 24, 2024 by Jason Liu · across every show →
Everything said about vector database, oldest first
Apr 24, 2024 positive
Liu: Rank and retrieve tool definitions instead of passing dozens to LLMs
“If you're running into issues where you have, like, 20 or 50 or 60 function calls, I think you're much better having those specifications saved in a vector database, and then have them be retrieved. So if there are 30 tools, like, you should basically be, like…”
Apr 19, 2025 bearish
May 21, 2025 neutral
Alberti: Cognition built its own in-house vector database
“This culture of like building everything in-house. It's also kind of funny, like we, there's like a rack component to this. And I've been actually, I personally advocate, I can just like use a vector database and make life easy. But then there's a really stron…”
Mar 20, 2026 negative
Singleton: Dreamer replaced Vector DB RAG for agent memory due to complexity
“Very early on, we were putting lots of facts into a vector database and doing embeddings and pulling them back out using, you know, reverse look of embeddings. Rag that actually worked, but turned out to be much more complexity than was actually required. So, …”
Apr 18, 2026 bearish
Apr 18, 2026 bearish