Most RAG blog posts read like product brochures. After building a few systems over the last months...
Most RAG blog posts read like product brochures. After building a few systems over the last months and reading way too many production post-mortems, I'm pretty convinced the LLM is usually not the thing that breaks first.
Especially not in EU mid-market deployments.
A few failure modes I see again and again:
1. Retrieval quality falls apart somewhere between 10K and 40K docs
The demo with 500 PDFs looks amazing.
Enterprise RAG — A practitioner's build log | Post 1 of 6 There is a retrieval failure mode that...
Enterprise RAG — A practitioner's build log | Post 4 of 6 RAG evaluation in most implementations...
Enterprise RAG — A practitioner's build log | Post 3 of 6 A retrieval pipeline has more design...
Most teams building LLM applications start with RAG for a good reason. It is practical, easy to...
Enterprise RAG — A practitioner's build log | Post 6 of 6 This series has documented a system built...
RAG has become the default answer for giving LLMs access to private knowledge. And for good reason —...
