Topic Cluster // 4 Articles
RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
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What Is an Example of a RAG Pipeline? A Practitioner's Walkthrough
I spent six months in 2025 building what I thought was a simple RAG pipeline for a legal contracts startup. By month four, I had scrapped the entire retrieva...
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Are RAG Pipelines Still Relevant?
Last week, a CTO of a Series B fintech told me, “We’re ditching RAG. Claude can handle 200K tokens now.” I had to stop myself from laughing. Not at him...
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What Is a RAG Used For? A Practitioner's Guide (2026)
I remember the first time a client asked me to build a question-answering system for their internal knowledge base. They had 50,000 PDFs, a GPT-4 API key, an...
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What Is Long-Context in LLM? The Practical Guide You Actually Need
It was 3 AM on a Tuesday in March 2026. I was staring at a log from a production RAG system we'd built for a healthcare client. The context window hit 32K to...