I think the problem with vector search is that it’s unbounded - is the 3rd result relevant at all? What about the 4th?
On top of that, I believe it’s clear with how Cursor and Claude converged on regex search after using vectors that asking LLMs to come up with similar terms to regex is more effective than searching for the user’s original term over a vector db.
It’s not just “seen as a bad deal by the company” - a business can’t give 100% of the value back to the employee because it has this pesky thing called “profits” it has to worry about :)
On top of that, I believe it’s clear with how Cursor and Claude converged on regex search after using vectors that asking LLMs to come up with similar terms to regex is more effective than searching for the user’s original term over a vector db.