Posts tagged "GraphRAG limitations"

A Code Graph Disintegrates Your Code. A Verifiable IR Preserves It.

A code graph takes a whole, coherent program and shreds it into a bag of symbols and edges. It is genuinely useful, but it is a teardown, and the meaning never survives the pieces. A verifiable intermediate representation is the opposite move. It lifts your code into a higher layer that keeps the intent intact, then checks every change against it. Here is the difference between shredding and preserving, and why it decides everything downstream.

Why Vector Search and GraphRAG Both End in the Same Context Rot

Vector search and GraphRAG look like opposites, but they share the same final move. Parse the code, retrieve some of it, rerank it, and stuff it into the context window. That last step is where both of them rot, because a model that is handed a pile of chunks degrades the same way no matter how the pile was chosen. Here is why the retrieval layer is not the cure for context rot, and what is.

What Verifiable Means for Code Context, and Why GraphRAG Can't Check Code Against Intent

Verifiable is the one word competitors cannot claim. A code graph extracts a shadow of your code and can never tell you whether the code still does what it is supposed to. A verifiable intermediate representation is a derived contract that every change gets checked against. Here is what verifiable actually means, why GraphRAG and vector search can only retrieve, and what continuous verification unlocks.