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Stop running everything through LLMs: How I fixed my research agent
Hacker News · manavm12 · Published · 3 min read
In 30 seconds
- What happened
- TinyResearch, a research agent system, uses iterative loops to gather and verify information rather than relying solely on LLM outputs for each step.
- Why it matters
- Engineers building agent systems need reliable research components that other agents can depend on without human verification of intermediate results.
- Watch out
- The system scores around 46-51 on public benchmarks, indicating room for improvement. Performance varies significantly by question type and domain.
- agent
- llm
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