RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) - more than just vector search

[daveshap]

https://jxnl.github.io/instructor/blog/2023/09/17/rag-is-more-than-just-embedding-search/

With the advent of large language models (LLM), retrival augmented generation (RAG) has become a hot topic. However throught the past year of helping startups integrate LLMs into their stack I've noticed that the pattern of taking user queries, embedding them, and directly searching a vector store is effectively demoware.