"LLMs aren’t going to understand what an embedding means. These are just numbers".

Sudeep Das (Head of ML/AI at DoorDash) breaks down why agentic recommendation systems are shifting from numerical expressions to language-native memory snippets.

Instead of relying on opaque vectors, passing semantic, text-based context allows downstream LLMs and agents to actually understand consumer behavior.

🔗 Watch the full presentation with transcript: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/ai-agentic-recommendations-semantic-ids/

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