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Community happenings: context engineering + your search career
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Talks this week + other events. Hope you can make it and help keep this community awesome 😎 First - Leonie Monigatti will share how Context Engineering IS Agentic Search. ​Tuesday, 10:30AM ET What everyone is missing: when people talk aobut "context engineering", they really ought to be improving search. Leonie will cast aside myths about context engineering to show how agents build their own context via retrieval. And THAT, not prompting magic, decides whether your AI app is successful. Signup here: https://maven.com/p/1c532b/agentic-search-for-context-engineering​ Second - your coding career in the agentic era​Wednesday, 2PM ET Brian Pedersen talks to hiring managers every day. He's the hiring manager whisperer. He sees how interviews go right and wrong in todays crazy tech hiring world. Signup here - https://maven.com/p/38ec62/your-tech-career-in-the-ai-age-q-a-w-a-recruiter​ Next week
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I share search tips, blog articles, and free events I'm hosting about the search+retreval industry, vector databases, information retrieval and more.
Late interaction is having a moment. The team at LightOn - including superstar developer Antoine Chaffin - has demonstrated how a 150M(!) late interaction model beats much larger models - some up to 8B parameters. David beats Goliath! Better search only cost you less! Tested on what dataset? BrowseComp. BrowseComp asks difficult questions requiring detailed, complex research. Tasks you can imagine agents chugging away, searching, getting frustrated and lost. Here’s an example prompt / answer...
How do teams choose vector databases / search engines? People wrack their brains between Elasticsearch/OpenSearch/Solr/Vespa/Pinecone/Turbopuffer/Weaviate/…? First things first - DO NOT start with a feature matrix. Start with the simple question: What is my team most comfortable with? That’s the default. If everyone can go deep in one system, don’t overcomplicate the decision. It might be good enough to stop here. NEXT - consider the high-level characteristics of the project. Use these as...
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