Stories by softwaredoug

Filtered Vector Search: What Acorn Fixes, and What Fixes Acorn

How Not To Program in C++ (2003) [pdf]

The Qdrant Output Connector

Elasticsearch Hybrid Search Recipes – Benchmarked (2025)

Don't classify, hallucinate

How do we prove our newsroom isn't AI?

Christopher Nolan's Collapsing Worlds

I Added Hybrid Search to Fix Retrieval. It Made It Worse

Just brute force your embeddings

Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise

Principal Component Analysis: an embedding shrink-ray

“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”

White House to Redirect Billions in Research Funds Toward AI, Away from Colleges

White House instructs intelligence agencies to fight distillation

A Large-Scale Empirical Study of AI-Generated Code in Real-World Repositories

A Study of Microsoft's Early 2026 Rollout of Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI

LambdaMART in Depth (2022)

Don't ask what you want. Ask who you want to be

Why write code in 2026

Don't build your castle in other people's kingdoms (2021)

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