alt Hacker News> So "stripe webhook" matches /services/stripe/webhook.handler.ts highly because the path literally contains both terms in logical positions
This sounds a lot like document search ontop of your specific attributes and you have a custom ranking algorithm.
Correct! The key insight isn't the algorithm itself—it's that structural metadata is enough. Traditional tools assume you need semantic understanding (embeddings), but we found that path structure + filename + recency gets you 90% of the way there in <200ms.
The 'custom ranking' is inspired by how expert developers navigate codebases: they don't read every file, they infer from structure. /services/stripe/webhook.handler.ts is obviously the webhook handler—no need to embed it.
The innovation is removing unnecessary work (content reading, chunking, embedding) and proving that simple heuristics are faster and more deterministic.