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by stevex 40 days ago
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.

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i can almost tell then you have not done anything like this in production scale. context window size is irrelevant.
It would not, and you would know that if you actually evaluated the results.
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.
I agree with you agentdev! Here, you want accurate results, you need to have harness in place to control the quality of output.
"very good" 99 percent of time and hallucinating 1 percent makes the "very good" part untrustworthy.
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.