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Re:What makes Claude Code so damn good by ebzlo on Saturday August 23, 2025 @03:55PM (#44998638)
Yes technically it is RAG, but a lot of the community is associating RAG with vector search specifically.
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Re:What makes Claude Code so damn good by dingnuts on Saturday August 23, 2025 @03:59PM (#44998673)
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
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Re:What makes Claude Code so damn good by koakuma-chan on Saturday August 23, 2025 @04:17PM (#44998795)
> why?

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

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