Chat is great for speed. Search is great for memory.
Most teams I’ve seen slowly lose knowledge because solutions live in Slack threads, chats, or someone’s head. Six months later, the same problem gets solved again.
Chat gives answers. Search gives recall.
That’s why tools like Elastic and Algolia still matter in an AI world.
https://www.elastic.co
Good engineering work leaves artifacts. Decisions, tradeoffs, explanations. Things you can find later.
Chat resets context every time. Search compounds it.
That doesn’t mean chat is bad. It means chat needs to feed search, not replace it.
If your team can’t find what it already solved, speed today just becomes waste tomorrow.
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