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May 20, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence
Why Chunk‑Based RAG Fails and How IdeaBlocks Improve Retrieval
The article argues that the common assumption that text chunks are the proper knowledge unit in RAG pipelines is flawed, leading to versioning, metadata, and redundancy problems, and demonstrates that replacing chunks with structured IdeaBlocks dramatically reduces corpus size, token usage, and improves vector relevance.
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