We really needed a custom search engine for Kanoon Portal - I had about two to four weeks to build it.

The first week was spent on thinking rather than writing code, and it was probably the most productive period of this sprint. Upon reflection, I realized the obvious: you can think thoughts quicker than put them into syntactically correct text. This conjecture, however, is now being challenged by LLMs, which enable you to code at light speed.

I’ll be updating this post over time and be sharing various details about the process + the technicalities and more. Stay tuned!