emschwartz

This link from Reddit worked for me: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/opinion/ai-hype-tech-layo...

Yeah that makes sense. I took the optimizations of my hamming distance library to a bit of an insane level. I wrote this about the first round https://emschwartz.me/unnecessary-optimization-in-rust-hammi... The second round brought the best result down to 0.8 nanoseconds per comparison on x86 with SIMD (for a batch of 1000).

Separately, I’m a huge fan of your writing about search! It’s been very helpful while I’ve been building https://scour.ing.

This works especially well if your embedding model was trained to perform well with quantized embeddings. Binary + hamming distance = incredibly fast.

This post is from 2024 but I wrote about using this technique in https://emschwartz.me/binary-vector-embeddings-are-so-cool/

Definitely put your finger on what I’ve been feeling.

> What AI did was give every engineer a small team of tireless, fast, occasionally-wrong direct reports. And with the team came the manager’s problem. The discomfort engineers are feeling right now isn’t an AI problem. It’s a delegation problem, and delegation is the oldest unsolved problem in our discipline.

Very good synthesis.

Hilarious. Nice work

Could you put some screenshots in the readme? Thanks!