Exploring Next
Exploring Next — Ep 427 w/ Justy & Cody — Replacing RAG with bash cut AI retrieval costs 30%
Justy and Cody dig into the argument behind direct corpus interaction, where agents use terminal tools like grep and find instead of relying only on vector search. They like the core point that retrieval interfaces can bottleneck reasoning, but they keep it grounded: this looks strongest for exact-evidence tasks in changing workspaces, and weakest as a blanket replacement for broad recall across huge corpora.