Your RAG Pipeline Is Probably Broken Upstream Of Retrieval
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Most teams debugging a retrieval system start in the same place. Chunk size, embedding model, top-k, the prompt. Those knobs are visible, they are easy to change, and changing one produces a different answer, which feels like progress. Meanwhile the thing that actually set the ceiling on the whole…
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- 2026-09-08 16:17 · DEV Community — AI
Your RAG Pipeline Is Probably Broken Upstream Of Retrieval