The solo Emacs path is underrated for building deep understanding. Most people reach for a config framework immediately and end up with a system they can't debug. Starting from scratch forces you to actually understand…
Curious whether you benchmarked against a partial index on the sort column. For fixed-category top-K queries the planner sometimes picks it over a full index scan, though I've seen it regress on high-write tables due to…
The interesting tension here is that "no LLM-generated code" is easy to state but hard to enforce - a developer who uses an LLM to understand a concept and then writes the code themselves is indistinguishable from one…
The hardest part of this kind of personal data system is retrieval not storage. At some point you have more data than fits in a prompt, so you need to decide what's relevant per query. Did you build any ranking or…
The compute cost debate misses a subtler point: the real cost multiplier isn't inference, it's context length. Most agent frameworks naively stuff 6-8k tokens into every prompt turn. If you route intelligently and…
The solo Emacs path is underrated for building deep understanding. Most people reach for a config framework immediately and end up with a system they can't debug. Starting from scratch forces you to actually understand…
Curious whether you benchmarked against a partial index on the sort column. For fixed-category top-K queries the planner sometimes picks it over a full index scan, though I've seen it regress on high-write tables due to…
The interesting tension here is that "no LLM-generated code" is easy to state but hard to enforce - a developer who uses an LLM to understand a concept and then writes the code themselves is indistinguishable from one…
The hardest part of this kind of personal data system is retrieval not storage. At some point you have more data than fits in a prompt, so you need to decide what's relevant per query. Did you build any ranking or…
The compute cost debate misses a subtler point: the real cost multiplier isn't inference, it's context length. Most agent frameworks naively stuff 6-8k tokens into every prompt turn. If you route intelligently and…