Laravel Vector Search Postmortem
How Laravel 13 vector search really works, from whereVectorSimilarTo down to the pgvector SQL, plus the HNSW filtering bug that silently thins your results.
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Founder & CEO, Contrive Solutions
15+ years in software engineering, SaaS, AI automation and enterprise application development
Rohan Jalil founded Contrive Solutions in 2014 and runs it as CEO. He has been building production software since 2010, first PHP and Laravel SaaS platforms, then AI systems: LangGraph agents, retrieval pipelines, n8n automation and voice agents on the OpenAI Realtime API. He holds an MS in Computer Science from LUMS. On Insights he writes about Laravel internals, AI agents and the production failures behind them.
How Laravel 13 vector search really works, from whereVectorSimilarTo down to the pgvector SQL, plus the HNSW filtering bug that silently thins your results.
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