Exa
Web search API used by research agent
Episodes
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#5950: Self-Hosting Your Search Stack: SearXNG, Crawl4AI, and the Real BillCan SearXNG, Crawl4AI, and an open-source aggregator really replace a commercial search API? Yes — with a very large asterisk. -
#5623: When Your AI Cites Sources It Didn't Actually UseYour RAG pipeline cites a source — but did the model actually use it? New interpretability research says you can't tell from the trace. -
#5230: Why Your Research Agent Won't Stop SearchingMost agent search runs add no new evidence — and 66-85% of the context window is just search snippets. Here's what actually stops the loop. -
#4814: The Manager Agent Nobody SeesHow supervisor agents orchestrate AI pipelines without generating content—and the three ways they fail. -
#4456: Inside the Podcast Pipeline: How 15 Weekly Episodes Get MadeFrom prompt to published episode — a full walkthrough of the automated production system running 15 shows weekly. -
#3241: How to Write a Product Spec That Makes AI Find You the OneStop typing three words into Google. The SPEC framework helps AI find exactly what you need. -
#3120: What Makes Agentic Search Tools Like Exa Actually Work?Why swapping Google for Exa transformed our show's accuracy — and what agentic search does differently. -
#2254: How to Test an AI Pipeline ChangeWhen you tweak one part of a complex AI agent system, how do you know if it actually improved anything? The answer lies in engineering checkpoints. -
#2213: When Ground Truth Moves HourlyHow do you rigorously evaluate whether Tavily or Exa retrieves better results for breaking news? A formal benchmark beats the vibe check. -
#2028: Agent Skills Are the New AppsAI agents are getting an App Store for brains. Discover how modular skills are replacing massive prompts and what it means for the future of work. -
#1713: Why Native AI Search Grounding Still FailsNative search grounding is expensive and flaky. Here’s why bolt-on tools still win for accurate, real-time AI answers.