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I made retrieval 4x better and my agent got worse
Community description: Recall@1 went from 13% to 50%. Recall@5 from 13% to 80%. Over the same week, the number of questions...
Dev.to | Sep 23, 2026 | Etka Ozer
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Better retrieval meant plausible candidates on the first search. Plausible candidates invite a second search to compare against. Every search past the third deleted another result.
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