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Re:Building reliable agentic AI systems by stevex on Sunday June 21, 2026 @07:10AM (#48617815)
You can almost tell the "era" that a solution was built in these days since things are changing so fast.

Mid-2026, we have very large context windows, and much smarter models than we did in 2024 when this was built. If I were to tackle this today I'd ask a current frontier model to work through the source data and design a hierarchy that would give it the ability to sift through the content itself by drilling down as it sees fit, and I expect it would nail that.

Re:Building reliable agentic AI systems by amw-zero on Sunday June 21, 2026 @09:27AM (#48618799)
It would not, and you would know that if you actually evaluated the results.
Re:Building reliable agentic AI systems by agentdev001 on Sunday June 21, 2026 @09:46AM (#48618952)
I have gone through this process and evaluated the results. Maybe you're referring to their comment as written, but going through what OC described + handholding leads to very good results in my experience.
Re:Building reliable agentic AI systems by sarangk90 on Sunday June 21, 2026 @10:45AM (#48619410)
I agree with you agentdev! Here, you want accurate results, you need to have harness in place to control the quality of output.
Re:Building reliable agentic AI systems by dominotw on Sunday June 21, 2026 @01:01PM (#48620512)
"very good" 99 percent of time and hallucinating 1 percent makes the "very good" part untrustworthy.
Re:Building reliable agentic AI systems by agentdev001 on Sunday June 21, 2026 @04:05PM (#48622128)
The "Very good" I'm referring to is far better than only 99%. I can't offer solid stats off the top sadly, so you'll have to just take my word for it ;)

I'll take the opportunity to note that if you're running solid evals, you'll have data to back the efficacy of your system. If you are seeing a hallucination rate of 1%, then you certainly should be working on your harness/toolset/context/prompting etc.

Saying "1% hallucination rate..." is akin to saying "30,000mi lifespan for [modern japanese make engine]". Something is wrong.

Re:Building reliable agentic AI systems by dominotw on Sunday June 21, 2026 @09:58AM (#48619054)
i can almost tell then you have not done anything like this in production scale. context window size is irrelevant.