His live search engine: a month of agent coding for about 150 euros, 111 million documents

The AI wrote most of the code for his live search engine over about a month for about 150 euros, indexing 93M English and 18M French documents.

€150one time

How it works

The agent writes most of the code for his live search engine over about a month
For about 150 euros
Indexing 93 million English and 18 million French documents

Why it’s worth knowing

111 million documents used to be a company's founding story.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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