ZZyVOP2h ago · 11 min readChoosing a Vector Database: pgvector vs Dedicated StoresThe real question isn't which vector database is best. It's where your vectors should live: next to the rest of your data in Postgres, or in a system built only for similarity search. Many teams alreablog.zyvop.com
EElay osetrov7h ago · 3 min readCan user A's question pull user B's documents? A tenant-isolation checklist for RAGMost RAG data leaks don't need a clever attacker. They need one missing filter. A shared vector index, a retrieval call that forgot the tenant_id, a semantic cache keyed only by the question text, andsetrov.hashnode.dev
AAshen Jayawardena8h ago · 23 min readThe Tester's Guide to RAG Evaluation, Part 2: Building the EvalsIn Part 1 you met the RAG system: retrieval finds passages in a corpus, generation writes an answer from them, and each half fails in its own way. You spiked the system to see how it really behaves, aashenasserts.hashnode.dev
MMagenta Waterwheel9h ago · 7 min readConverting PDFs to Clean Markdown for RAG and LLM PipelinesIf you've built a RAG pipeline that ingests real-world documents instead of clean .txt files, you've hit this problem: PDFs don't contain text the way you'd want them to. They contain layout instructimagentawaterwheel.hashnode.dev
AAshen Jayawardena13h ago · 22 min readThe Tester's Guide to RAG Evaluation, Part 1: FoundationsIf you test software, you already ask the question that matters most in AI evaluation: how would I know this is wrong? Now ask it of a system that answers questions from a company's documents. The samashenasserts.hashnode.dev
RRounak Show17h ago · 8 min readUnderstanding LLM Embeddings from Scratch — Part 5: Word2VecIn Module 4, we treated embeddings as raw parameters—numbers in a matrix tuned by backpropagation to minimize a loss value. Now, we step back from the raw mechanics to look at the emergence of meaningrounakshow.hashnode.dev
RRONI DAS21h ago · 8 min readMore Chunks Found the Right Document 90% of the Time. The Model Used It Less. RAG Interview Questions, With the NumbersWe gave one small model 20 questions and changed a single setting: how many chunks go into the prompt. With 5 chunks, the right document was in the prompt for 55% of the questions. With 20 chunks, it systemdesignacademy.hashnode.dev
KKarthikeyan Selvaraj1d ago · 8 min readHow to Troubleshoot Jenkins Pipeline Failures Using RAG and AI#DevOps #Jenkins #Artificial Intelligence #RAG #AIOps Have you ever spent 30 minutes or even a few hours troubleshooting a Jenkins pipeline failure, only to discover that your team had already fixed t1Acloudbites.hashnode.dev
TTechTIQ Inc1d ago · 4 min readRAG vs Fine-Tuning vs Prompt Engineering: Choosing the Right ApproachTeams building with large language models usually ask the same question in the first week: should we prompt it better, give it our documents (RAG), or fine-tune it? Each approach solves a different prtechtiqinc.hashnode.dev
RRounak Show1d ago · 10 min readUnderstanding LLM Embeddings from Scratch — Part 4: How Does an Embedding Actually Learn?So far, we've learned why embeddings exist, how vectors, dimensions, and similarity work, how nn.Embedding stores vectors and retrieves them using token IDs, how padding and attention masks handle var1Arounakshow.hashnode.dev