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How we leapfrogged traditional vector based RAG with a 'language map'
twitter.com162points
55comments
#507of 3,515 in 2024
Top 15%of 2024 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
7 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 3 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score +0.15.
Idea: 3 for, 1 againstPricing: 0 for, 2 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Commenters found the wiki approach interesting and effective
From 3 comments
Looks similar to what we're doing in Pythagora with CodeMonkey agent (prompt: https://github.com/Pythagora-io/gpt-pilot/blob/main/core/prompts/code-monkey/describe_file.prompt,…
senko on HNNice job on this, it’s a really interesting approach. I’ve been developing an open-source coding agent over the past year, and RAG just wasn’t working at all. I switched to a…
kleneway1 on HNThis is amazing. Do you have any information on the implementation?
J_Shelby_J on HN
Objections
Login required to ask questions
From 2 comments
it wants me to login to ask a question I will just keep using phind you have vc dollars - sponsor a public free search over open source repos. Also think about what happens when…
spirobelv2 on HNThis comes across as pretty rude... they're already indexing and generating pages for public repos for free, and providing this search for free, just behind a login. If you want…
fudged71 on HN
Wiki may be too wordy and not token efficient
From 1 comment
I agree that many AI coding tools have rushed to adopt naive RAG on code. Have you done any quantitative evaluation of your wiki style code summaries? My first impression is that…
anotherpaulg on HN
Requests
Open access without login for public repos
From 1 comment
it wants me to login to ask a question I will just keep using phind you have vc dollars - sponsor a public free search over open source repos. Also think about what happens when…
spirobelv2 on HN
Questions
How the wiki is generated and structured
From 2 comments
Can you share some basic insight into how your system processes an open source repo to generate a wiki with a hierarchy and structure that maps to the same or similar hierarchy…
billmalarky on HNDo you build a syntax tree of the code, then loop the tree to auto-write an article for each node (or the larger or more material nodes) and then also reference the tree to pull…
billmalarky on HN
Alternatives named
Aider repo map
From 1 comment
I agree that many AI coding tools have rushed to adopt naive RAG on code. Have you done any quantitative evaluation of your wiki style code summaries? My first impression is that…
anotherpaulg on HN
Phind
From 1 comment
it wants me to login to ask a question I will just keep using phind you have vc dollars - sponsor a public free search over open source repos. Also think about what happens when…
spirobelv2 on HN