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Our retrieval systems are getting better at giving users what they ask for, and worse at giving them what they need. On Mendeley, Building 20, differential diagnosis, and the case for engineering friction back into our agentic tools.
AI makes it easy to produce work. The harder question is whether anyone is willing to own it. On delegation, abdication, and the practice of knowing what you actually think.
The Next Frontier of Search: Retrieval Augmented Generation meets Reciprocal Rank Fusion and Generated Queries.
NowEvery retrieval system now optimises for what you asked for, which is how the relevance trap trains us to stop asking more interesting questions
NowEvery retrieval system now optimises for what you asked for, which is how the relevance trap trains us to stop asking more interesting questions
NowBefore you let an agent ship in your name, it's worth being honest about whose name is actually on the outcome
NowBefore you let an agent ship in your name, it's worth being honest about whose name is actually on the outcome
NowA year of notes I took whilst AI stopped looking like a tool and started looking a bit too much like a mirror
NowA year of notes I took whilst AI stopped looking like a tool and started looking a bit too much like a mirror
NowThe year I used tarot cards to plan a sprint and they outperformed the LLMs, which I can't let go of as either a joke or a point
NowThe year I used tarot cards to plan a sprint and they outperformed the LLMs, which I can't let go of as either a joke or a point
NowBefore you let an agent roam freely, there's a stronger case for agents that know their lane and can be trusted to stay in it
NowBefore you let an agent roam freely, there's a stronger case for agents that know their lane and can be trusted to stay in it
NowThe post that named RAG-Fusion, which is worth rereading whilst half the industry carries on pretending retrieval is a solved problem
NowThe post that named RAG-Fusion, which is worth rereading whilst half the industry carries on pretending retrieval is a solved problem