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Re:Claude can now search the web by dartos on Friday March 21, 2025 @05:27AM (#43433542)
Splitting hairs, but LLMs themselves don’t search.

LLMs themselves don’t choose the top X.

That’s all regular flows written by humans run via tool calls after the intent of your message has been funneled into one of a few pre-defined intents.

Re:Claude can now search the web by eddd-ddde on Friday March 21, 2025 @08:12PM (#43442056)
How do you know? You could 100% create the tool to search and chose results, go through links, read more pages, etc.
Re:Claude can now search the web by dartos on Friday March 21, 2025 @11:59PM (#43443365)
I know because that’s how these systems are built.

I’ve built systems like it.

If it was something brand new, Anthropic would be bragging hard about it.

> You could 100% create the tool to search and chose results, go through links, read more pages, etc.

That’s exactly what I’m saying. _YOU_ could build a tool that does that. The LLM essentially acts as an intent detector, not a web crawler.