Comment by jrochkind1

5 days ago

> What bothers me most: the majority of content about pgvector reads like it was written by someone who spun up a local Postgres instance, inserted 10,000 vectors, ran a few queries, and called it a day.

this is a big problem in programmer blog posts. It used to be I could find blog posts by peopel who had actually done the thing ("in anger").

Now it's someone who decided writing up the thing would draw clicks, and googled just enough to write the thing, may or may not have actually even fired it up at all -- may not have even written it, perhaps had AI write it.

It makes any of these blog posts pretty terrible guides.

I used to try at least downvoting these on say reddit when it was obviously not written by someone who had their own actual earned knowledge about the thing, but just gave up, because it's nearly everything.