Pure semantic search misses exact matches. Pure keyword search misses paraphrasing. Hybrid search runs both and merges the rankings, often with a re-ranker on top. It's the production default for most RAG setups in 2026, the marginal complexity is worth the recall improvement.
Engineering notes from the Digitorn team. No marketing, no launch announcements, no "10 prompts that will change your life". Just the things we write that we'd want to read.