Why Naive RAG Fails and What Actually Fixes It
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Retrieval augmented generation looks trivial in a tutorial chunk your documents, embed them, do a similarity search, stuff the results in the prompt. It runs on the first try. Then you point it at a real corpus, ask a real question, and it confidently returns garbage. I spent a chunk of the last tw…
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- 2026-09-08 06:50 · DEV Community — AI
Why Naive RAG Fails and What Actually Fixes It