Ryan Ahern
Forward Deployed Engineer
Exa
Less is More: Optimising Search for Agents
Monday, 7 December · 2:10 PM · AI Engineering track
Less is More: Optimising Search for Agents
Giving agents more search results doesn't necessarily make them better.
Ryan Ahern explains how Exa is rethinking search for agents, improving task success rates while reducing the cost of finding the information they need.
Ryan Ahern
Ryan Ahern is a forward deployed engineer at Exa, the search engine built for AI. His open-source work focuses on making web search useful and configurable for AI agents, including Exa's integration in Pydantic AI, where he added direct control of search filters and made highlights the default so agents get the context they need with fewer tokens.