Best "Brain" for Agents Is Just Versioned Folders of Markdown Files

jfreds

I’m confused: is it just markdown files in git? Or does the hybrid graph+semantic layer matter? If the latter is true, the title is just clickbait right

skiing_crawling

How does git replace a vector db search exactly? They are orthogonal. Are you gonna burn a million tokens every time you wanna find some relevant files?

GrinningFool

This isn't even well-slopped slop.

TranquilMarmot

This should be common sense and immediately obvious to anybody who has spent more than a few hours with a coding agent.

Kim_Bruning

I think just one useful thing is mentioned: put your md files in git and then have a hybrid fts/vector search across them actually does work better? Not a very surprising conclusion. Doesn't need that much text to explain, does it?

knighthack

I really don't get having a ton of MD files lying around. And the possibility of having to edit a thousand MD files when the metadata frontmatter changes. A single SQLite database implements columns/metadata handling, and comes baked-in with FTS and BM25 ranking too.

zwaps

This reads like an AI writing to a point an author wants to make without there being evidence. It is completely incoherent. Apparently we just need markdown and git, but also a knowledge graph and pgvector which accounts for most of the performance. We don’t need semantic search, because we use… hybrid search (semantic search plus bm25)??? Really bad look for an AI consulting company this.