RAG Context Budget: Pack Evidence Without Burying the Answer
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When a RAG answer is wrong, the reflex is often to raise top_k . More retrieved chunks feels safer. In production, it can do the opposite: the one useful passage gets surrounded by repeated, stale, or merely related text, while the model has less room to answer. A large context window is capacity,…
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- 2026-10-20 03:31 · DEV Community — AI
RAG Context Budget: Pack Evidence Without Burying the Answer