RAG vs Fine-Tuning in Your First GenAI Backend
A coding assistant does not need to understand an entire repository before it can answer a developer’s question. It needs to find the right code, show where it found it, and avoid presenting stale guesses as facts. For a first implementation, I would choose live repository search over a vector index. Embeddings become worthwhile when real questions repeatedly defeat symbol and text search—not simply because the feature uses generative AI.
Live repository search is the better default for code questions
Consider a developer asking, “Where do we reject an expired session token?” The likely…
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