@mshcheglov1 assumed he had to summarize meeting transcripts before feeding them to his agent. He tested it. Summarizing made recall 20 to 25% worse. Everyone's instinct here is the same. Raw transcripts are noisy, full of tangents and half-finished sentences, so you clean them up first. That instinct is expensive. He gives two reasons it fails. The first is granularity, because the detail that answers a question six weeks later is exactly the kind of thing a summary drops as noise. The…