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796 pages of semantic search with no vector database, and what it cost to skip one
A static site distilled its embedding model into an 8,900-word lookup table and ranks 796 documents in single-digit milliseconds in the browser. The trade-offs are published too.
Publishers:dev.to
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption12
- Hype gap−8
- Incentives34
- Confidence46