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priya_tToday at 2:14 AM

my RAG pipeline keeps returning the same 3 chunks no matter what i ask 😭 anyone dealt with this

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devraj_k 2:03 AM

your system prompt is leaking into the tool description — that's why it loops

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wait WHAT. fixing now

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also your temperature is 0.9 for a tool-calling agent, bring it to 0.1

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priya_t#agent-debugging4 min ago

finally cracked the context window issue — turns out I was embedding the whole thread not just the last 5 turns 🤦

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anyone else notice GPT-4o is way more consistent with XML tags than markdown headers for tool definitions?

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PSA: if your ReAct agent is over-thinking, add "be concise, max 2 reasoning steps" to your system prompt. dropped my token usage 60%

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hi grove 👋 designer who just learned to code via AI. building a brand voice generator. terrified and excited in equal measure

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priya_t#agent-debugging4 min ago

finally cracked the context window issue — turns out I was embedding the whole thread not just the last 5 turns 🤦

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devraj_k#show-and-tell11 min ago

shipped: Notion → Claude → structured data pipeline. 0 to prototype in 6 hours. grove ppl literally helped me name it lol

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tomasz_w#prompt-engineering18 min ago

anyone else notice GPT-4o is way more consistent with XML tags than markdown headers for tool definitions?

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nadia_hacks#wins27 min ago

first paying customer 🌱 $49/mo. small but it's real. thank you grove for talking me out of charging $5

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lkumar_ships#agent-debugging35 min ago

PSA: if your ReAct agent is over-thinking, add "be concise, max 2 reasoning steps" to your system prompt. dropped my token usage 60%

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