# Your agent wants to search like a 2010 quant

DevFeed: [Your agent wants to search like a 2010 quant](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/your-agent-wants-to-search-like-a-2010-quant-12802.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.vespa.ai/your-agent-wants-to-search-like-a-2010-quant/>)

Author: Jon Bratseth

Published: 2026-07-07T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Vespa Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/vespa-blog.md>)

Topics: [AI search](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-search.md>), [information retrieval](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/information-retrieval.md>), [Language models](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/language-models.md>), [Google Search](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google-search.md>)

Tags: [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agents.md>), [bm25](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bm25.md>), [genai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/genai.md>), [google-search](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google-search.md>), [hybrid-search](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hybrid-search.md>), [information-retrieval](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/information-retrieval.md>), [rag](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rag.md>), [ranking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ranking.md>), [search](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/search.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that AI agents should retrieve information with more control and sophistication than ordinary human search users. It describes a progression from vector retrieval to hybrid search using methods such as BM25 and machine-learned ranking, and presents search as code as a possible next stage.

## Source excerpt

The idea of empowering AI agents to retrieve information like a professional is going mainstream.