Stories by softwaredoug

The evolutionary mystery of the German cockroach

The hidden danger that kills search products

Story Points Revisited (2019)

Networking sucks. How it actually works [video]

Stop avoiding conflict on your teams

The Moses Trap and How to Avoid It (2019)

Staff engineers exist in a system of patronage

Companies need junior devs

The Knowledge Creating Company (1991)

From Keywords, to AI, to GAR – the evolution of search [audio] [video]

Search query analysis minus the noise

I made a worse search engine than Elasticsearch

Will AI chickens come home to roost?

Jars.ai

SHAP is not all you need

Haystack 2024 Recap

BM42 – a new baseline for hybrid search

A little pooling goes a long way for multi-vector representations

More Query Understanding: Brand Detection with LLMs

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