Jakub Hojsan is a forward deployed engineer at Exa, helping customers connect web search to AI agents and production applications. His talks explain how current documentation can correct a coding model’s outdated assumptions.[1][2]
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Hojsan’s work at Exa spans pre-sales, implementation and support for strategic accounts. His personal chronology dates that role from 2025. It also lists a 2025 AI strategist role at Distyl, where he worked on enterprise AI and realtime voice, and mentions earlier work at Microsoft. He studied computer science at UCLA. His work sits at the point where a search API has to become part of a functioning customer application.[1]
Contributions
Hojsan demonstrates query-specific highlights that return relevant spans instead of a whole page. He emphasizes visibility into queries and sources so engineers can investigate retrieval behavior. The talk combines current evidence with an explicit search trigger in an agent’s workflow.[2]
Ideas
In his AI Engineer talk, Hojsan uses a code review involving an upstream dependency change to show the limits of a model’s stored knowledge. A seemingly reasonable cleanup may be necessary because a dependency removed an interface. Search can recover the change’s rationale, but the agent needs an instruction to consult upstream sources when versions change. Making a tool available does not ensure that the agent recognizes when its own knowledge is insufficient.[2]
Tools, writing & talks
Writing, research & talks
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A code-review example shows why agents need both fresh documentation and instructions for when to retrieve it.
Watch the dependency-change example first to understand the failure mode before trying a search integration. Basic familiarity with pull requests is enough; the talk explains how to decide when an agent should consult external evidence.
Speaker[2]Original source
Tools
- Exa Terminal demodemos.exa.ai
An interactive search demonstration linked from Hojsan’s engineering portfolio.
Portfolio-linked demo; individual authorship not specified[1]