hybrid retrieval results: what are you seeing?

[sanescope]

Spent some time on this today and wanted to compare notes.

I'm comparing two approaches here: keep it simple on mini PC, or squeeze more out of the stack and deal with the complexity.

What would you pick if you had to live with it for a few months?

For context, I'm not chasing leaderboard numbers. I mostly want the system to feel consistent day to day.