His agent built the search connector he now uses daily, then tuned it in comparisons

Had an agent write an MCP for his SearXNG setup, then do comparison passes against server-side LLM web tools and tweak it; it works pretty well in his own search use.

How it works

He has an agent write a connector for his self-hosted search
Runs comparison passes against server-side LLM web tools
Tweaks it
It works pretty well in his own daily search use

Why it’s worth knowing

The tuning loop compared it against the tools it replaces.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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