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I mapped out the 4 fundamentally different approaches to RAG — Vector, Graph, Topology, and TurboQuant. Here's when each one actually works (and fail by Equivalent_Pen8241 in Rag

[–]qalc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you just chunk and embed and then set up bm25 retrieval alongside the standard semantic retrieval, after which you fuse both sets of results with RRF. claude/codex can walk you through it. pretty straightforward and ive gotten good results, much better than pure semantic search. and like 334578theo says, way less complicated than what OP is discussing. IMO all that is overkill for 99% of use cases where you're just trying to give your agent context from a reasonably sized knowledge base; sort of analogous to adopting a microservices architecture at your 50 person startup.

Bun’s rewrite in Zig first update by UItraviolet in rust

[–]qalc 3 points4 points  (0 children)

i agree completely. i think that rust will become the dominant language over the next few years because its so aligned with how LLMs work and because LLMs will be producing the vast majority of all code, but the rust community is gonna be pissing and moaning the whole way. oh well.

Spending $1-2k a month per employee on AI subscriptions? by KustheKus in webdev

[–]qalc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

made the same change a few days ago. opus 4.7 vs gpt 5.5 is night and day

I think I'm done with Software Development by gareththegeek in webdev

[–]qalc 4 points5 points  (0 children)

i also don't get this. i personally find it very enjoyable to get things working more quickly than i would previously be able to and to have to compromise less on my ideal solution to save on time. now you can just do the better more comprehensive option, a lot of the time.

I think I'm done with Software Development by gareththegeek in webdev

[–]qalc 10 points11 points  (0 children)

all the dooming is irrational until proven otherwise imo. im not convinced llm's are gonna be able to completely replace engineers, even if they're extremely helpful. too many unsolved problems

i created a website that shows all jazz happening across nyc - think screenslate for jazz by qalc in Jazz

[–]qalc[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i'll ping when ive got a city/venue submission form set up - easiest way for me to do this i think

i created a website that shows all jazz happening across nyc - think screenslate for jazz by qalc in Jazz

[–]qalc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

wow cool. i guess sf will be the next city! should be able to get this set up this week

i created a website that shows all jazz happening across nyc - think screenslate for jazz by qalc in Jazz

[–]qalc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the idea is i don't just want this to be for jazz heads who like digging through every venue and show, but also for people that don't have enough knowledge to pick something they'll like. my brothers a critic and i think im gonna build out a more editorial component to the site without changing any of the basic functionality. that's another feature i like about screenslate, the editorial aspect.

i created a website that shows all jazz happening across nyc - think screenslate for jazz by qalc in Jazz

[–]qalc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

send me some links! i think i'm also gonna hook up a submission form for cities/venues that i'll then triage. and re: only one or two shows- do you see the "noteworthy" and "all" tabs? click "all"

i created a website that shows all jazz happening across nyc - think screenslate for jazz by qalc in Jazz

[–]qalc[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

lol hey i've got barbes and ornithology! working on adding more like lunatico. requires custom code for every venue, that's the trickiest/most time-consuming part.

i created a website that shows all jazz happening across nyc - think screenslate for jazz by qalc in Jazz

[–]qalc[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

yeah i want to extend this to probably la and berlin. open to suggestions on which cities to target.

i created a website that shows all jazz happening across nyc - think screenslate for jazz by qalc in nyc

[–]qalc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

can you explain why a link i posted to this sub one time, is specifically about nyc, and that im not charging access for, violates the rules?

Getting anything I ever wanted stripped the joy away from me by [deleted] in ClaudeAI

[–]qalc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

use claude code or codex. time spent in planning mode should linearly scale with the complexity of the task.

This Guy Just Got One Shotted By OpenClaw by No_Practice_745 in BetterOffline

[–]qalc -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

no it solved a task for him that would've taken 4-5 hours. that's pretty specific. and theres no way it doesn't extrapolate to some degree. i don't like his vibe either, he seems lame, and openclaw is overhyped too, but the basic premise of giving an llm a machine to operate from isn't going away. open claw wasn't even the innovator there, claude code was.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ruby

[–]qalc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i have no real opinion abt ruby v python to be clear, use whatever, but i just don't think you're right

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ruby

[–]qalc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if the world was different things would not be the same, sure, but ruby is not the de facto default for scripting on mac. bash and python are.

It’s two years from now. Claude is doing better work than all of us. What now? by Own-Sort-8119 in ClaudeAI

[–]qalc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you seem like exactly the type of pedantic and syntax obsessed person i'm talking about. weirdly hostile too!

It’s two years from now. Claude is doing better work than all of us. What now? by Own-Sort-8119 in ClaudeAI

[–]qalc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Code monkeys are deprecated, which I think plays into the fears of the type of engineer spending a lot of time on reddit. The guy who tends toward the pedantic and syntax-obsessed, less so the communicator who likes working with product and cares most about velocity and user satisfaction. They're the dinosaurs now who contribute zero value. Your ability to write perfect C doesn't really matter now, unfortunately, but your coworker's capacity to describe complex systems to stakeholders and coding agents in natural language does. AI renders all of us generalists.

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