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Agentic Bash - shines for a small, dynamic, per-call file set where the agent needs to reason adaptively across files — the tradeoff is speed. Its use case is similar to RAG so I compare both of them
Read on SubstackDense embeddings miss exact terminology. Here's why combining BM25 with vector search improved our petroleum Q&A system by 12 percentage points — and how to implement it.