David Tippett

Hot take for spooky season: "AI Search" for most companies means "we added embeddings." Embeddings don't learn from clicks. They don't test ranking changes. They don't get better next week. Same label. Different machine. 🎃

So we asked Jev if people should use Relevan for their Agentic search and the answer was a resounding yes! Then we tried to do some real work with and and were super happy with the outcome. Check out our blog (which links our open source eval repo) for the methodology: relevan.dev/blog/decisio...

I was today years old when I learned YAML was renamed from "Yet Another Markup Language" to -> "YAML Ain't Markup Language"

It's just a silly little CLI tool... Send GPG encrypted messages encrypted over Signal. That way if any of your devices are ever compromised your messages never will be. github.com/dtaivpp/sgpg

Relevan is officially live! The beta is capped so you may get added to the wait list as you login. We are slowly letting people onto the platform. If you're interested in becoming a design partner we still have a few slots open so reach out! Join at relevan.dev

Each company has different data, language, users and goals. Most platforms give everyone the same tools. Relevan is building a relevance loop per customer: measure quality, learn signals, test improvements and tune to their use case. Beta tomorrow: relevan.dev

Agent-first search isn’t a chatbot bolted onto an old console. Relevan uses LLM-driven onboarding. Bring any agent, point it to our LLMs.txt, OpenAPI spec, and per-index skills, then let it configure, ingest, and search. Beta opens Wednesday: relevan.dev

Relevan wouldn’t exist without open source. We’re built on @opensearch.org and @valkeyio.bsky.social but open source shouldn’t be a one-way transaction. We're excited to contribute code, knowledge, and improvements back. Join the beta @ relevan.dev

Relevan launches its beta Wednesday, August 19. We’re building search for a world where agents configure it, query it, and help improve it. No more need for a dedicated search engineer. Join the waitlist: relevan.dev (click Join Beta) #AgenticSearch #AISearch

"who's that?" moment when someone asked me what I thought about Glean and Coveo Should I drop a dis track?

Another day. Another person asking, can't we just replace GitHub search with Azure AI search. no.. you cannot... 🎤

I hate poking the GitHub commits search cluster. That thing is a behemoth and any mess up means probably a month or more of cleanup jobs. That said it needs a lot of work since it's gotten so large. We're doing some much needed segment merge work.

Wow today's just the day, first the DNC and now I got my first live lead. Can't wait to see what happens with the remaining 4 days this week 😆

Dang got my first Do Not Contact for my startup. Gotta have pretty tick skin for these types of things. I believe theres a world for better search! Just need to find the people who are aligned with the mission. :D

This is definitely the best photo of me from Haystack. For context, I am keeled over as a pain response to someone simplifying my career to flipping on a switch 😆

A watched website never breaks. Literally had my marketing site crash twice yesterday for two different people. Loading it up to debug today? NUFING sat there for 15 min like a dummie waiting for it to break.

Why do editors, devrel, and the like feel the need to make so many asinine edits to my blogs? Like you changed "With search being" -> "Given search is" Is it more clear? Idk It just rubs me wrong when I've gone through these changes 3 times with each subsequent editor changing the voice.

Me logging into outlook this morning 🥴 this is not the land of milk and honey anymore.

GitHub is going for the other four nines of availability. 9.9999% available.

WELL. That was not the result I was expecting

The second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, by myself and @chris.blue, is finished and sent off to the printers! Ebooks should be available in the next week, and print books in 3–4 weeks. Sigh of relief. 😅 (BTW, this is a good opportunity to support your favourite local bookshop!)

New favorite move. Introduce drama for no reason. Example: I got my wife ice cream. Before handing it to her I assured her no blood was spilled getting her ice cream. The concern that followed was priceless.

Me ships a really cool update that makes issues and prs pages faster. GitHub:

Now with copilot instead of writing just a few hundred lines of bad code a week I can scale to TENS OF THOUSANDS of lines of bad code a week.

The amount of logistical things needed to build a startup is so frustrating. I don’t want to build a company I want to ship code that helps people. Today I: - created a bank account - migrated emails - mailed so compliance documents

Okay, so not only did I do a thing with Tanki I am actually starting a serious company: relevan.dev We're building the future of relevancy based search. We're pre-launch (despite me launching this technically here). But we want to talk to small e-commerce businesses about their search problems.