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Building a RAG Pipeline for Semantic Code Search: A Developer Diary and Field Notes

Our short summary of JetBrains’s engineering write-up. The full story, with all the detail, is on their blog.

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Problem

Developers needed instant, accurate code search across huge, constantly changing codebases.

Solution

JetBrains built Air Context, a production RAG system that chunks, vectors, stores millions of code vectors in an ANN index, supports incremental updates and branch‑level filtering for millisecond retrieval.

Want the architecture, code and numbers? They’re in the original post.

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