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Replace, Don’t Expand: When RAG Learns to Throw Things Away

The inbox problem hiding inside RAG Inbox. That is the easiest way to understand what goes wrong in many retrieval-augmented generation systems. A query arrives. The system retrieves a few documents. The answer is not obvious. So the system retrieves more. Then more. Then perhaps a web search result. Then a rewritten query. Then another bundle of passages. ...

December 12, 2025 · 20 min · Zelina
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From Snippets to Synthesis: INRAExplorer and the Rise of Agentic RAG

TL;DR for operators Most enterprise RAG systems still behave like diligent interns with a search box: they retrieve a handful of plausible snippets, hand them to a language model, and hope the synthesis does not quietly forget half the question. That works for narrow Q&A. It fails when the user asks for a relationship chain, a complete list, or a decision-ready map of who did what, funded by whom, connected to which topic. ...

July 23, 2025 · 15 min · Zelina