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		ebzlo 55 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What makes Claude Code so damn good Yes technically it is RAG, but a lot of the community is associating RAG with vector search specifically.

dingnuts 55 days ago [–]

it does? why? the term RAG as I understand it leaves the methodology for retrieval vague so that different techniques can be used depending on the, er, context.. which makes a lot more sense to me

koakuma-chan 55 days ago | [–]

> why?

Hype. There's nothing wrong with using, e.g., full-text search for RAG.

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