When Search Keeps Pulling the Wrong Documents, What to Suspect Before Embeddings
When RAG retrieval quality won't improve, it's easy to blame the embedding model or the vector DB first, but the real culprit is often chunk splitting that mechanically cuts documents and fragments their context. This piece walks through examples of how common mistakes—fixed-length splitting, cutting sentences in half, separating tables from headings—wreck recall, then covers how to tune chunk size and overlap to match document structure, along with practical metrics for measuring retrieval quality.