Comment by sorokod

11 hours ago

Yes, the author is likely unaware of this. They see markdown files with links, so a graph and the set of those files, so a "database".

https://neo4j.com/docs/graph-data-science/current/algorithms...

Neo4j looooooves the "if you think about it, everything is graphs!" marketing maneuver. They (their marketing department) were the very first thing I thought of when I read this headline.

  • "Everything is graphs, so let's use a graph DBMS for anything" is a classic blunder

    • I've seen it work to sell their product to managers who definitely should have gone with something else, so I get why they do it. It works.

His argument is that the LLM is the query engine. By that logic you can approximate anything since LLMs can.

  • Indeed, what is the point of links/edges when the llm can figure out the relations by itself?

    • >what is the point of links/edges when the llm can figure out the relations by itself

      Making it work less, faster, and saving tokens. Duh!