Tavily
Web search API for retrieval augmentation
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. -
#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. -
#4967: AI Gateways: Worth the Middleware Tax?When does an AI gateway's overhead justify its features? We break down the tradeoffs. -
#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. -
#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. -
#2535: Inside LangChain's Deep Agents: What's Actually in the BoxA deep dive into the batteries-included agent harness with terminal CLI, sub-agents, and production-ready evaluation. -
#2505: How Self-Hosted Search Actually Works for AI AgentsSearXNG isn't a crawler — it's a metasearch router. Here's how it works and why AI agents change everything. -
#2308: When AI Forecasts Collide: Geopol Model DivergenceFive AI models forecast the Iran-Israel-US crisis — and their disagreements reveal surprising insights about geopolitical reasoning. -
#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. -
#2214: The Three Failure Modes of AI News SystemsWhen a conflict changes hourly, AI systems built for yesterday's information fail. Here's how to architect pipelines that actually keep up. -
#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. -
#2143: Simulating Geopolitics Under Asymmetric InformationA two-stage AI pipeline predicted a 4% chance the Iran-Israel ceasefire would survive a month, using Monte Carlo simulations and an LLM council. -
#2132: The Referee's Dilemma: Epistemic Containment in LLM SimulationsWhy do AI war games need a news blackout? We dissect the firewall that keeps LLM actors from cheating with real-world data. -
#2129: Shifting Left on HallucinationsStop hoping your AI doesn't lie. We explore the shift to deterministic guardrails, specialized judge models, and the tools making agents reliable. -
#1765: The Agentic Internet: A Clean Web for MachinesWe explore the tools building a parallel, machine-readable web—from SearXNG to Tavily. -
#1716: Seeing the AI Think: Visual Debugging for Agent WorkflowsSee how a visual, node-based tool lets you build complex AI agent workflows without writing code. -
#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. -
#1700: Can LLMs Learn Continuously Without Forgetting?We explore a new approach: micro-training updates every few days to keep AI knowledge fresh without constant web searches. -
#948: Can AI Search Survive the Fog of War and SEO Spam?Explore how AI is moving from static models to real-time data and whether specialized search tools can survive the rise of the tech giants. -
#91: The Story Behind the ShowDaniel Rosehill explains the origins, motivation, and technical pipeline behind the My Weird Prompts AI-generated podcast.