Skip Everling

Skip Everling

Hornet.dev

Skip Everling is Head of Developer Relations at Hornet.dev, with over two decades of experience across AI infrastructure, developer tools, and technical go-to-market. He helps developers use Hornet, the retrieval engine built for agents with a verifiable API surface that agents can configure, deploy, query, and optimize.

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Agentic Retrieval: Building Self-Optimizing Search Systems

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Relevance feedback loops used to take months. AI agents can now compress the process to seconds. This talk explores agentic retrieval: systems where agents adjust scoring models, schema, and indexing in real time. Learn how to build retrieval infrastructure with verifiable APIs that enable agents to optimize their own search context.