Last Tuesday I lost about three hours to a regression in our checkout service. The cart total was off by a cent on certain promo combinations, and the only signal was a Slack ping from finance with a screenshot. No stack trace. No exception. Just wrong numbers. I did what I always do first. I opened the diff for the last deploy, scrolled, squinted, and tried to feel my way to the bug. Forty minute
Fixed-length chunking requires no external services, yet semantic chunking absolutely needs an Embedding API — why? The core idea of semantic chunking is to split text at semantic boundaries. Determining whether "two pieces of text belong to the same topic" requires converting text into vectors and computing similarity — that's exactly what the Embedding API does. Dimension Fixed-Length / Recur
RAG stands for Retrieval Augmented Generation. Why do we even need RAG?? To answer this lets take a look at What LLMs and SLMs are. LLM(Large Language Model). Data on several categories(generalized) will be given as input. From that, a model would be created. What is a model ? To understand this, lets take mathematical equation of a straight line y = mx +c Lets take x values to be 1, 2, 3, ... a
Why Do We Need Specialized Vector Databases? In the first five articles, we figured out how to chunk documents and generate embeddings. Now where do these vectors live, and how are they efficiently retrieved? You might wonder: "Can't I just store vectors in Redis or PostgreSQL?" No — traditional databases are designed for exact queries (e.g., WHERE id = 123), while vector retrieval is Approximat
I Built a VS Code Extension to Bring IntelliJ’s “Show History for Selection” Experience If you come from IntelliJ, you probably miss one super useful feature in VS Code: Show history for selected lines. I built a new extension to solve exactly that. Show History for Selected Code This extension helps you inspect Git history for a specific code selection, not just the whole file. Shows commit h
In Day-1, we understood about the overview of a RAG system and what are its components and how it helps the LLM to generate more accurate and contextual responses. Now, lets see about the storage of the data using Vector Databases. Lets assume that we have a PDF with us and this would be considered as our private data. Now I want my LLM to have the context about this PDF, So that I could ask any q
Microsoft's 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' Tag: Unpacking the Strategic Play for AI Dominance in VS Code The persistent insertion of 'Co-Authored-by: Copilot' into commit messages within VS Code—often irrespective of GitHub Copilot's active contribution to specific changes—is far from a benign engineering detail. It represents a calculated, multi-faceted strategic maneuver by Microsoft, signaling a pr
Gen AI Based Chatbots, Its quite normal and people are doing it for couple of years now, So what’s Different that I am doing? Well the biggest issue with using AI models now is its Cost, even for a simple FAQ based chatbots. The Cost goes in Thousands.. The result is P.A.I.. It's a chatbot widget that lives in the corner of my portfolio site. Visitors The Architecture at a Glance Before diving