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I Replaced My Vector Database With Boring Algorithms
Community description: Why I replaced part of a vector database workflow with AST parsing, symbol indexes, exact lookup, and simple ranking rules.
Dev.to | Nov 8, 2026 | Josep Oriol Carné
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Not because embeddings stopped being useful. For that kind of query, the source code already contains the answer explicitly. This is not an argument against vector databases, embeddings, or LLMs.
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