Allie the Icon's line-by-line search pattern for Jev
One document in state, one question per line, and the output type decides whether you get a passage or a ranking.
Allie the Icon posted a pattern she calls line-by-line search. You put an entire document in state, then ask a question once for each line, or each paragraph if lines are the wrong unit. She describes it as useful when you want to find the most relevant line for a query.
Use nouls when you expect one dominate answer, use scores when you want to highlight lines by overall relevance.
The part worth reading twice is the output type. Her rule is to use nouls when you expect one dominant answer, and scores when you want to highlight lines by overall relevance. She frames the first as good for answering a specific question and the second as good for finding all relevant passages. Those are two different jobs wearing the same prompt. A noul run over a hundred lines hands you back a pick. A score run over the same hundred lines hands you back a ranking you can threshold, sort or paint onto the document.
Why the choice is the pattern
Swapping the two does not fail loudly. It fails by giving you the wrong shape of answer. Ask for scores when the document contains exactly one place the answer lives and you get a long list of mediocre relevance numbers that someone downstream has to argue about. Ask for a noul when the query is really a retrieval sweep and you get a single confident line while the other four passages that mattered stay invisible. Neither looks like a bug in a trace.
The pattern leans on running the same question across every line at once rather than walking the document. Diogo Almeida, who posted alongside the thread, has been making visual explainers of that parallelism, which is the thing that makes a per-line sweep over a whole document a reasonable idea instead of an obviously slow one.
For people building on it, this is a described pattern, not a measured one. Allie posted no latency, cost or accuracy numbers, and there is no eval attached, so treat the noul versus scores rule as a starting shape for your own test rather than a result you can cite.
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