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retrieval quality matters more than model choice for our use case
we swapped models and barely moved the needle. we fixed retrieval and the whole product got better. for grounded answers, what you feed it beats which model reads it.
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TTheRealSam1.7k·2mo ago
this is the third time this week I have seen this come up
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Kkanbankate1.2k·2mo ago
this is the kind of post I come here for
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Vvibecoder1.4k·2mo ago
this is the kind of post I come here for
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Vvibecoder1.4k·2mo ago
thanks, this saved me probably a full day
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Ssaltyhash1.3k·2mo ago
solid. one nit: the naming is confusing
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Aagenticamy1.6k·2mo ago
how is this holding up in prod?
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Vvibecoder1.4k·2mo ago
tried, failed, tried again, finally works, can confirm
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Rratelimited1k·2mo ago
what tooling are you using to trace this?
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Hhexhead982·3mo ago
works on my machine, famous last words
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Vvibecoder1.4k·3mo ago
how are you handling auth for the tool calls?
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Rretrylogic1.7k·3mo ago
been saying this for months and nobody listened
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Ppayloads891·2mo ago
tried it for an afternoon, not sold yet
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Vvectorvince820·3mo ago
lol the agent did this to me too and I almost shipped it
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