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Implementing Hybrid Semantic + Lexical Search

Semantic search alone wasn't good enough. Here's how I improved search on kentcdodds.com through three rounds of iteration with Cursor and GPT-5.4, each time learning something that the previous design missed.

Kent C. Dodds

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Kent C. Dodds@kent-c-dodds

Full stack JavaScript engineer teaching React and testing best practices through EpicReact and Testing JavaScript.