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23:18
2026-09-28
softwaredoug.com
ai-research

Check twice, cut once with LLM search relevance eval

Doug Turnbull's local_llm_judge experiment on the WANDS furniture e-commerce search dataset found that forcing an LLM to pick a more relevant product yielded 75.08% precision at 100% recall over 1000 …

00:00
2026-09-22
softwaredoug.com
ai-search

Cheating at search with jev

Software engineer Doug Turnbull tested the jev system-one model from Typesafe.ai against GPT-5 and GPT-5-mini on query classification using the Wayfair WANDS dataset, treating a predicted category as …

00:00
2026-09-17
softwaredoug.com
ai-search

Pointers for your search career in 2026

Search professionals should prioritize backend software engineering fundamentals and hands-on experience with LLMs, agents, and embeddings, according to a hiring-trends report by Brian Pedersen cited …

00:00
2026-07-29
softwaredoug.com
ai-infrastructure

Vectors Week: become a savier vector db customer

A series of vector database courses, led by Doug Turnbull and Adam Hevenor, will run the week of August 10, covering how to choose a vector database, improve hybrid search, and build a vector database…

13:54
2026-07-04
softwaredoug.com
ai-agents

Write Code, Not Specs

Software engineer Doug Turnbull argues that developers should prioritize writing code over specifications when working with AI coding agents, using tests as executable requirements to gradually expand…

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