Building a Claude API chatbot with live web search: 5 open engineering questions
angel-queen123 · reddit · 2026-09-21
A developer building a customer-facing Claude API chatbot seeks field-tested advice on five problems: live-search latency numbers, hallucination control when citing search snippets, reliable search-trigger decisions, domain-restricted search APIs (Tavily/Serper/Brave), and sustainable accuracy feedback loops without fine-tuning.
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