Do You Like Vibe Retrieval (RAG)?
3 mingtianzhang 4 8/20/2025, 9:31:56 PM
Vibe coding has now become a popular term. I feel like vector-based semantic similarity search should be called ‘Vibe Retrieval’ — it retrieves things with similar semantics, but not necessarily what you actually want. This is a big problem for domain-specific documents like finance or legal documents, since their documents all share the same vibe lol.
Do you think ‘Vibe Retrieval’ is a positive term?
Comments (4)
andy99 · 1h ago
Well e.g keyword search (or looking something up in the index of a book) does not necessarily retrieve what you want, it just matches words. There's nothing special about semantic similarity in this regard, certainly no parallel with vibe coding.
mingtianzhang · 7m ago
But keyword search is at least a white-box method, it gives you what you want. But semantic similarity is an approximate search and unexplainable.
throwaway888abc · 2h ago
It's called RAG
mingtianzhang · 2h ago
Yeah I should call it 'Vibe RAG' lol.