This is one of the best things I’ve read in a long time when it comes to information retrieval in the context of agents.

Attention is an activity operating in a substrate of attractors and distractors. This is very different than how we’ve thought about good search results for humans.

Lester does a great job synthesizing recent research and distilling it into some key fundamentals which should change the way you think about information retrieval when building rag or agentic retrieval.