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4 pieces filed under “retrieval”.
AI · 11 Aug 2026 · 11 min
RAG and the staleness problem: freshness is a ranking signal
Stale retrieval makes RAG answers confident folklore. Treating freshness as a ranking signal, surfacing 'last updated' in answers, and designing the re-indexing pipeline.
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AI · 22 July 2026 · 11 minCitation design: making RAG answers checkable
Citations only work if they're checkable: claim-to-chunk mapping, snippet fidelity tests, anchor UX, and what to do when the source contradicts the summary.
AI UXcitationsRAG
AI · 8 July 2026 · 12 minChunking is a design decision: RAG retrieval craft
Chunk sizing, structure-aware splitting, metadata, hybrid retrieval and reranking — the retrieval engineering that decides whether your RAG feature answers or shrugs.
RAGretrievalAI architecture
AI · 24 June 2025 · 9 minRAG pitfalls we hit so you don't have to
Retrieval in production humbles everyone. The chunking trade-offs, citation bugs, stale knowledge and eval failures that taught us how RAG actually breaks.
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