Stories by softwaredoug

A big part of context engineering comes down to empathy

Real life NDCG notebook (2024)

The tradeoff between human and AI context

Tightsqueeze, Virginia

The whipsawing of Windsurf employees has left a bitter taste in tech

Humans overrely on overconfident language models, across languages

Mercenaries over Missionaries

Start with Who, Not Why (2022)

Senate passes Trump’s megabill after pulling all-nighter

Query Autocomplete from LLMs

How to Do Autocomplete

Against LLM Maximalism

I made a search engine worse than Elasticsearch (2024)

Parasite Infecting Up to 50% of People Can Decapitate Human Sperm

Live coded vector search engine w/ filtering (Colab notebook)

I accidentally built a vector database using video compression

You Don't Need Re-Ranking: Understanding the Superlinked Vector Layer

Tail latency might matter more than you think (2021)

The size bias of text embeddings and its impact on search

RAG's Big Blindspot

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