Blog
Development notes and updates on Enzyme.
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The preprocessing layer RAG is missing
RAG retrieves passages. Enzyme builds thematic structure before anyone asks a question. Why retrieval alone isn't enough for accumulated content — and how the two work together.
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Search isn't the hard part
Your team can build semantic search in a week. The preprocessing that makes it useful takes months. Here's what that layer actually involves.
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An LSP for your notes
CLAUDE.md tells the agent how to search. It can't tell it what 7,000 notes are about. Enzyme builds a conceptual index so it stops grepping blind.
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The case against tagging your notes
Tags are useful clustering signals — but they're not the retrieval mechanism you think they are
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When worse embeddings give better results
The case for approximate search in personal knowledge