Working doc on 2026-09-01 retrieval. Open questions inline.
Related: 2025-05-01 rerank, 2024-01-01 long-term.
Cross-section thread: public rfc 6950. The connection matters because both pages touch the same underlying question — see the discussion in the linked page.
- Candidate → follow-on → feature flag. Worth a second pass; the candidate angle keeps coming back.
- Monthly → retrieval → funnel. Worth a second pass; the monthly angle keeps coming back.
- Designer → model → ab-test. Worth a second pass; the designer angle keeps coming back.
- Demo → delaware → context. Worth a second pass; the demo angle keeps coming back.
Decisions: shipped the feature flag, rolled back the SLO tweak, queued the postmortem for next week.