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Most RAG systems fail for one reason:
They treat all documents the same.
In one system I built:
* PDFs needed structure-aware chunking
* Excel needed metadata queries (not embeddings)
* PPT required OCR per slide
Once I fixed this → retrieval quality jumped massively.
RAG is not about embeddings.
It’s about understanding your data.
If the RAG system feels “broken”, this is probably why
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Such a clean little timer.
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I went back to particles, made them gentler and kept them only under the cursor. That one stayed
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