The Retrieval Checklist I Wish I'd Had Before Shipping RAG
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The first time my RAG system gave a confidently wrong answer, I did what everyone does: I blamed the model. I swapped in a bigger one. I tuned the prompt. I added "only answer from the context provided" in bold. The answer got no better. The problem was never the model. The model was faithfully sum…
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- 2026-08-25 04:02 · DEV Community — AI
The Retrieval Checklist I Wish I'd Had Before Shipping RAG