Your RAG Isn't Broken. Your Retrieval Is, and You've Never Measured It.
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Here's the debugging loop I see constantly, and ran myself for 1 month. Answer is wrong. Adjust the prompt. Slightly better. Swap the model. Different wrong. Add "only use the provided context" in bold. Still wrong. Conclude the model isn't good enough. Every one of those changes is downstream of t…
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- 2026-08-23 07:25 · DEV Community — AI
Your RAG Isn't Broken. Your Retrieval Is, and You've Never Measured It.