the pawns · small, and they promote
The decisions.
Every non-trivial choice, written the same way. The problem, the options, what each costs, the move, what we accepted, when we would revisit.
memo
8 of 70 rewritten so far
- 2. !pgvector in Postgres, not a vector database.
- 5. !!Hybrid retrieval, fused by rank, not pure vector search.
- 10. !The schema is multi-tenant. The product is not.
- 13. !?Hosted speech to text, after planning to self-host.
- 15. !The schema constrains the model. Semantic failure is terminal after one repair.
- 17. !Chunking depends on length. A short note is one chunk.
- 45. !!The database answers the structured part. Retrieval answers the rest.
- 70. !!Three notifications, and no more.
Ravine
4 of 13 rewritten so far
!! the move that made the thing! clearly right!? interesting, and it changed an earlier move?! dubious, kept with eyes open