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#Retrieval

Everything tagged "Retrieval": 2 pieces across articles and the journal.

Articles

May 28, 20264 min read

Retrieval Is Not Grounding: Building RAG That Stays Honest

Fetching the right documents is necessary but not sufficient. Grounding (answers that are actually entailed by the retrieved evidence) is a separate property you have to design for and measure. Here is how I think about the gap, and the evaluation that closes it.

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Journal

June 3, 2026exploring
Notes on chunking: smaller isn't always better
Spent the afternoon re-running a chunking ablation because a retrieval metric drifted and I wanted to know why. The folklore is "smaller chunks → better recall." That is true right…
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#Retrieval

Articles

Retrieval Is Not Grounding: Building RAG That Stays Honest

Journal

Notes on chunking: smaller isn't always better