Vector Search Cannot Answer Questions: 3 RAG Boundaries Explained
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TL;DR: Treat vector search as an evidence locator, not an answer engine. For a marketplace knowledge-base bot, retrieve small, versioned passages; let a model answer only from those passages; and return citations that preserve the join between each claim and its source. If any one of those three bo…
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- 2026-10-23 00:59 · DEV Community — AI
Vector Search Cannot Answer Questions: 3 RAG Boundaries Explained