Technical notes from the team — agents, evals, incidents, infrastructure and just dev.
How retrieval-augmented generation actually breaks down in production: ingestion, indexing, and retrieval. Each part has its own contract, failure modes, and cost surface.
What documents exist, who can see them, what state they're in.
Read Part 2 · ReadingParsing, chunking, embeddings, vector DB. Where RAG becomes useful or expensive.
Read Part 3 · ReadingHybrid retrieval, rerank, retrieval-time ACL, prompt-injection defense.
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