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What actually holds up in production — retrieval, cost, deployment, and the tradeoffs nobody puts in the sales deck. Written from client work and our own builds.
Long context didn't kill RAG — it changed what RAG is for
Every time a model ships a bigger context window, someone declares retrieval obsolete. Then they try to put a real corpus in the prompt and rediscover, at $1.50 a question, why retrieval exists.
Read the post →Vector search alone is not a retrieval system
The demo works and then someone searches for an invoice number. What separates a RAG prototype from something people trust is almost entirely in the retrieval layer.
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