Vector Databases: Choose the Failure Mode, Not the Benchmark
You are choosing a vector database, so you open the comparison charts. Most of them have one, and it tends to show the publisher…
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Reranking and the Recall You Throw Away
You added a reranker because retrieval quality was not good enough. The relevant passage kept landing at rank eight when it should have been…
Chunking Is Where RAG Silently Fails
You have tuned everything. A better embedding model, a reranker, hybrid search. Retrieval quality is still not what it should be, and you cannot…