Notes
Reading from the seam.
Short pieces on what Polymathy is, what it isn't, and the design choices behind treating “turn search results into chunks” as its own service.
- Why Polymathy is on Actix-web, not Axum (yet) A small post about why a 2026 Rust web service ships on actix-web instead of axum — the OpenAPI story, the four documentation UIs, and the boring case for not switching frameworks until the tax outweighs the rent.
- Why answer engines need to cite — and how Citations are not a UX flourish on top of a RAG system. They are the contract that lets a paragraph-shaped answer be trusted, audited, and corrected. Here's the plumbing.
- From 10 blue links to one cited paragraph: the shift in internal search The decade-long arc that took internal search from ranked URLs to single, sourced paragraphs — and why answer engines are now the default expectation.
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