@HamelHusain
People are misunderstanding her. It’s important to remember that a variant of semantic search is still happening 1. User writes a query 2. You send that query to a LLM with semantic understanding that knows what other tokens in latent space are similar to the query 3. LLM decides to rewrite query as traditional search, Grep, regex and expand the hell out of keywords based on semantica It’s all about tradeoffs: the order of operations very much depends on the goal and sometimes a different path is optimal 1. Sometimes (Often) you want to do hybrid search 2. Sometimes you want to to show a model interleaved results and have it do multiple rounds of search if it’s truly exploratory 3. Some domains need semantic search way more than others But don’t read into blanket statements on Twitter that X is dead. When you see this it just means “We aren’t using X in our specific situation because of out tradeoffs”