RAG Chunking Is a Schema Decision, Not a Preprocessing Step
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TL;DR — Most RAG teams treat chunking as a tunable preprocessing knob and lean on re-ranking to clean up the mess. But re-ranking can only reorder what's in the candidate set — it can't recover information that chunking already severed. The fix is to stop conflating the unit you index with the unit…
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- 2026-10-24 13:16 · DEV Community — AI
RAG Chunking Is a Schema Decision, Not a Preprocessing Step