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Flowchart of RAG pipeline highlighting retrieval components over LLM generation

Retrieval Isn't Just Plumbing—It's the Brain of Every Working RAG Pipeline

You pour hours into picking the perfect LLM for your RAG setup, only to watch it confidently lie because retrieval grabbed the wrong chunk. Turns out, the real model isn't GPT—it's the forgotten retriever.

4 min read 4 weeks, 1 day ago
Comparison diagram of Proxy-Pointer RAG pipeline versus traditional PageIndex and Vector RAG
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Proxy-Pointer RAG: Ditching Vectors for Smarter, Cheaper Retrieval

You're knee-deep in a 131-page World Bank tome, hunting for jobs data amid charts and tables. Vector RAG chucks vague chunks at your LLM. Proxy-Pointer RAG? It slices the exact section—like a scalpel, not a sledgehammer.

4 min read 4 weeks, 1 day ago

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