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Weekend Challenge · Week 7

Agent vs. Pipeline

A rigorous head-to-head: your agent against your static pipeline, three metrics, no favorites. The interesting result is wherever the agent LOSES.

Your mission

  1. Run your full eval suite against both systems: quality, latency, token cost
  2. Break results down by query type: simple factual, multihop, out-of-corpus
  3. Write a deployment recommendation: which system serves which traffic?
Deliverable

A comparison report with per-query-type tables and your routing recommendation, committed.

Stretch goal

Implement the router you just recommended: simple queries hit the pipeline, hard ones wake the agent. Measure the blended cost and quality.