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RAG from Scratch [Part 2]: Loading — The Step Everyone Skips and Everyone Regrets

The second installment of a five-part series on RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) emphasizes the critical importance of the data loading step, which is often overlooked but can determine the success or failure of the entire pipeline.

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Series 2 of 5: The unglamorous first step that quietly decides whether your entire RAG pipeline succeeds or silently fails. Continue reading on Towards AI »

source & further reading
pub.towardsai.net — original article RAG Without the Guesswork: A Standardized LangGraph + LlamaIndex Pattern. China Just Shipped Opus 4.8-Level Agentic Coding for One-Sixth the Price The GIL isn’t so Bad After All
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