alt Hacker NewsI think this is a great approach for a startup like Mintlify. I do have skepticism around how practical this would be in some of the “messier” organisations where RAG stands to add the most value. From personal experience, getting RAG to work well in places where the structure of the organisation and the information contained therein is far from hierarchical or partition-able is a very hard task.
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GandalfHN • today at 7:41 PM
Layering a virtual FS over a spaghetti-doc org is an indexer in drag, and you still need access control or it's a complaince disaster.
skeptrune • today at 6:30 PM
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.
The use case is well defined here, let’s not jump the gun. Text search, like with code, is a relatively simple problem compared to intrinsic semantic content in a book for example. I think the moral here is that RAG is not a silver bullet, the claude code team came to the same conclusion.