alt Hacker NewsYeah open question what "perfect" search would even be, like would that just end up being indistinguishable from a kind of magical omniscience? And then there's "can I literally just find that one freaking slideshow from a while ago with that one client... or is it in Google Drive...?" And I really don't want the solution to be that we just plug everything into Claude
I think of perfect from two perspectives, one being "finding things I wanted to find", the other being "findings things I didn't know I wanted to find". I think Claude is great if the data isn't proprietary, secret (an all open-source project) but for dealing with Tax documents on my local machine I would hope that a search for my W2 would also find my 1099 I had forgotten I had, it'd be nice if I didn't have to allow the big AIs into everything to do that.