{"slug": "rag-from-scratch-part-2-loading-the-step-everyone-skips-and-everyone-regrets", "title": "RAG from Scratch [Part 2]: Loading — The Step Everyone Skips and Everyone Regrets", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "Series 2 of 5: The unglamorous first step that quietly decides whether your entire RAG pipeline succeeds or silently fails.\nContinue reading on Towards AI »", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rag-from-scratch-part-2-loading-the-step-everyone-skips-and-everyone-regrets", "canonical_source": "https://pub.towardsai.net/rag-from-scratch-part-2-loading-the-step-everyone-skips-and-everyone-regrets-9027691bc792?source=rss----98111c9905da---4", "published_at": "2026-06-21 16:31:01+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-21 16:39:05.302881+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "machine-learning", "large-language-models", "ai-tools", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Towards AI"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rag-from-scratch-part-2-loading-the-step-everyone-skips-and-everyone-regrets", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rag-from-scratch-part-2-loading-the-step-everyone-skips-and-everyone-regrets.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rag-from-scratch-part-2-loading-the-step-everyone-skips-and-everyone-regrets.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rag-from-scratch-part-2-loading-the-step-everyone-skips-and-everyone-regrets.jsonld"}}