Notes
Notes on AI systems, retrieval, and the work that starts after the demo.
Notes on retrieval, evals, observability, and the engineering that starts once the demo is the easy part.
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Which Query Transformation Techniques Actually Help RAG?
Query rewrite, decomposition, step-back prompting, HyDE, fusion, and when each one is worth the extra latency.
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Most RAG Failures Start in the Documents
Chunking, titles, metadata, parent-child structure, reranking, and corpus QA for RAG systems.
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