Writing

Technical notes — things I built, investigated, or spent time understanding.

I understood RAG in five minutes. Then I tried to build one, and that's when the real learning started

I've been reading about RAG for a couple of days now, and honestly, the core idea clicked almost immediately. Then I actually tried to build one.

I thought retrieval in RAG was just one step. Turns out it's actually five or six different decisions hiding behind one word.