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I built a RAG engine that refuses to answer with garbage context (and it cost me way more debugging than expected)

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Why this ranksEngineering Lessons
30TS ScoreImpact + Innovation, combined
IMPACT25
INNOVATION35

Our take: RAG pipeline improvements; incremental fixes to known problems, documented elsewhere.

Why Impact & Innovation? We ask two questions of every story: did this actually change something in the real world (Impact), and is the idea genuinely new (Innovation)? Together, that's the TS Score — not engagement, not who posted it, just what matters and what's new.

A developer rebuilt their RAG system as an event-driven pipeline to handle semantic caching, exact-match keyword search, and chunk ordering problems that broke naive implementations.

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ProgrammingOpen SourceTechnologyPublished Aug 6, 2:40 PM
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