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New comment by skeptrune in "We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant"

skeptrune — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:47:48 +0000

Working on publishing those, but publishing benchmarks requires a lot of attention to detail so it will likely be a bit longer.

New comment by skeptrune in "We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant"

skeptrune — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:46:58 +0000

agreed. hopefully we can get there soon

New comment by skeptrune in "We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant"

skeptrune — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:46:37 +0000

Yea we did and actually use Daytona for another product, but it would have been too slow here.

New comment by skeptrune in "We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant"

skeptrune — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:20:44 +0000

yea chromadb is not the point. multiple data storage solutions work

New comment by skeptrune in "We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant"

skeptrune — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:14:34 +0000

agreed!

New comment by skeptrune in "We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant"

skeptrune — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:43:55 +0000

We would also be super interested to see that comparison. I agree that there isn't a specific reason why Chroma would be required to build something like this.

New comment by skeptrune in "We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant"

skeptrune — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:42:33 +0000

I agree that would have been the way to go given more time and resources. However, setting up a FUSE mount would have taken significantly longer and required additional infrastructure.

New comment by skeptrune in "We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant"

skeptrune — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:30:58 +0000

100% agree. However, if there were no resource tradeoffs, then a FUSE mount would probably be the way to go.

New comment by skeptrune in "We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant"

skeptrune — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:30:08 +0000

Modern OCR tooling is quite good. If the knowledge you are adding into your search database is able to be OCR'd then I think the approach we took here is able to be generalized.

New comment by skeptrune in "We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant"

skeptrune — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:28:49 +0000

Hmmm, the post is an attempt to explain that Mintlify migrated from embedding-retrieval->reranker->LLM to an agent loop with access to call POSIX tools as it desires. Perhaps we didn't provide enough detail?

New comment by skeptrune in "We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant"

skeptrune — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:27:35 +0000

Vector search has moved from a "complete solution" to just one tool among many which you should likely provide to an agent.

New comment by skeptrune in "We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant"

skeptrune — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:26:35 +0000

I think it's cool that LLMs can effectively do this kind of categorization on the fly at relatively large scale. When you give the LLM tools beyond just "search", it really is effectively cheating.

New comment by skeptrune in "We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant"

skeptrune — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:24:17 +0000

100% agree a FUSE mount would be the way to go given more time and resources.

Putting Chroma behind a FUSE adapter was my initial thought when I was implementing this but it was way too slow.

I think we would also need to optimize grep even if we had a FUSE mount.

This was easier in our case, because we didn’t need a 100% POSIX compatibility for our read only docs use case because the agent used only a subset of bash commands anyway to traverse the docs. This also avoids any extra infra overhead or maintenance of EC2 nodes/sandboxes that the agent would have to use.

New comment by skeptrune in "Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs"

skeptrune — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:21:57 +0000

This is awesome! I'm happy someone made this exist.

The future of text layout is not CSS

skeptrune — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 03:19:34 +0000

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New comment by skeptrune in "I created my first AI-assisted pull request"

skeptrune — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 02:44:14 +0000

Part of why I originally picked programming as a profession is because it felt like a way to get paid to be more of an artisan craftsman. Ultimately, I don't think it was ever quite that, even before ai.

But now post LLM coding agents, its not at all that. Nothing about programming for money resembles artisanship.

It might be time to try sewing wallets or something...

New comment by skeptrune in "Is it a pint?"

skeptrune — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:26:53 +0000

Most useful website I've been on in a hot minute

New comment by skeptrune in "Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language"

skeptrune — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 05:30:47 +0000

input: my boss is making me go through a humiliation ritual known as "sprint planning"

output: Grateful for the opportunity to lean into another high-impact sprint planning session today! It’s all about radical transparency, aligning our vision, and embracing the grind to deliver massive value. Growth happens outside the comfort zone! #AgileMindset #Leadership #Synergy

New comment by skeptrune in "MacBook Neo Is the Most Repairable MacBook in 14 Years"

skeptrune — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 07:48:59 +0000

i absolutely never ever in a million years would have guessed this to be the case

New comment by skeptrune in "Lies I was told about collaborative editing, Part 2: Why we don't use Yjs"

skeptrune — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 07:47:40 +0000

we're about to implement collaborative editing at Mintlify and were considering yjs so this couldn't have come at a better time