Stop Splitting by 500 Tokens: Why Heading-Aligned Chunking Wins RAG
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Most RAG pipelines fail before retrieval even starts—because arbitrary token splitters blindly slice sentences, code blocks, and context in half. When you split text strictly every 500 or 1,000 tokens, boundaries land anywhere: midway through an explanation, inside an HTML table, or cleanly separat…
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- 2026-09-22 10:15 · DEV Community — AI
Stop Splitting by 500 Tokens: Why Heading-Aligned Chunking Wins RAG