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Sometimes the smartest engineering decision is to delete the thing you built three weeks ago. Sometimes it's just to gate it behind an if statement.
By month two, our CTO had stopped asking 'is it CLIP-quality' and started asking 'is it SigLIP-fair?'
What you actually wire up when you blend keyword, dense vector and image embeddings into one ranker — named vectors, fusion, drift, and the day your Turkish search broke on apostrophes.
The 60 in '1/(60+rank)' came from a 2009 paper. Most teams who copy it think it's a Qdrant default.