Slides: Benchmarking semantic code retrieval on Claude Code — Kuba Rogut, Turbopuffer
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Benchmarking semantic code retrieval on Claude Code — Kuba Rogut, Turbopuffer
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6 Ethan Lipnik @ &@ @EthanLipnik - Jan 30 Gove
Does anyone know why Codex and Claude doesn't use cloud-based
A embeddings like Cursor to quickly search through the codebase?
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Early versions of Claude Code used RAG + a local vector db, but we
found pretty quickly that agentic search generally works better. It is also
simpler and doesn’t have the same issues around security, privacy,
staleness, and reliability.
9:56 PM - Jan 31, 2026 - 11M Views
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