alt Hacker NewsThere is a more serious question in here that's not being answered. How effective is the retrieval in finding buried needles in larger and larger haystacks. And there's a correlary question, how effective could you be in finding paired needles in that haystack where you need to hold a needle to unlock finding another needle.
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I use detailed project files. It has data regarding the project and subtasks as well as task status. It doesn’t depend on agent context and it’s managed to keep the agent on track. Feature creep with the new models is a very real issue. Capturing principles and how to reconcile tasks helps too. Even today it brought up a source of truth issue it had detected. There were multiple authorities born out of a patch and it used that principle to highlight and resolve the problem.
Considering the state of the field ( RAG/retrieval/evaluation) I have 0 trust in it, even more if it's closed source with bullshit claim like that.
Everything is vibe sloped to death, and dead after a few months to a couple of years (and not hard to be 100 cheaper than GPT-5.6 sol ... DS is basically free and I guess already 100 times cheaper or more, and here another slope ).