Retrieval matters more than I expected.

I kept experimenting with prompt and model tweaks to my AI App.

The biggest move was actually changing the search layer!

I've been using these: Exa, Tavily, Serper, Brave Search and Firecrawl, and I can't say there is a single best one. They all have their pros and cons.

What got the bigger surprise was that more or less search results, generally, did better on the answers than the 20+ pages of garbage.

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u/Intellectual_Owl — 20 days ago

whats your favorite MCP server?

ive recently started exploring MCP, and its interesting to see how different servers can extend what Claude can do. tho i wanna ask daily users

  • which MCP server do you use the most?
  • what task did it save you the most time on?
  • are there any 'underdog' MCP servers that I could learn for the long run?

it would help a lot to know what others think ^-^

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u/Intellectual_Owl — 21 days ago