vector search

5 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 4 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Dec 17, 2023 by Beyang Liu · across every show →

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Dec 17, 2023 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Liu: Post-hype reality check will expose the limits of AI search techniques
“And I don't know, I think in the next year or two, maybe as like the, as we get past like the peak AI hype, we'll start to see the gap emerge or become more obvious to more people about like how, how, how many of like the newfangled techniques actually work in…”
Beyang Liu Dec 17, 2023 ▶ 1:05:04 The "Normsky" architecture for AI coding agents — with Beyang Liu + Steve Yegge of SourceGraph
Oct 11, 2024 negative
Insight
Goyal: Vector Search Hard Part Is Application Permissions, Not Search
“The problem is that the challenge in deploying vector search has very little to do with vector search itself, and much more to do with the data adjacent to vector search. So, for example, if you are at Figma, the Vector search is not actually the hard problem.…”
Ankur Goyal Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 1:15:11 Production AI Engineering starts with Evals
Oct 11, 2024 negative
Opinion
Goyal: Vector Search Is Rarely a Storage or Performance Bottleneck
“In almost all cases, vector search is not a storage or performance bottleneck. And in almost all cases, the vector search involves exactly one query, which is, you know, nearest neighbors.”
Ankur Goyal Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 1:16:17 Production AI Engineering starts with Evals
Apr 18, 2026 bearish
Insight
Eifrem: Good Enough Vector Features in Existing Databases Suffice
“Between everyone else adding it as a feature there, like the good enough ends up being good enough for most situations.”
Emil Eifrem Apr 18, 2026 ▶ 6:15 ⚡️ How to turn Documents into Knowledge: Graphs in Modern AI — Emil Eifrem, CEO Neo4J
Apr 18, 2026 positive
Insight
Eifrem: GraphRAG combines vector search with graph traversal
“It's not like graph or vector search. It's like vector search in combination with traversing the graph. That's the typical kind of pattern that we see.”
Emil Eifrem Apr 18, 2026 ▶ 8:16 ⚡️ How to turn Documents into Knowledge: Graphs in Modern AI — Emil Eifrem, CEO Neo4J
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