How to keep a RAG knowledge base fresh without re-embedding everything
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Most RAG pipelines I look at are refreshed by brute force: re-crawl the docs site every night, re-chunk everything, re-embed everything, overwrite the index. It works, eventually, but it's wasteful and it hides three bugs a nightly rebuild never fixes. Below is what actually goes stale, what a full…
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- 2026-10-28 05:50 · DEV Community — AI
How to keep a RAG knowledge base fresh without re-embedding everything