RAG Series (3): Tuning These 4 Parameters to Go From 'It Works' to 'It Works Well'

Why Does Your RAG Give Wrong Answers When Someone Else's Doesn't? In the first two articles, we built a RAG pipeline that runs. But many people find that while the code works, answer quality is inconsistent — sometimes spot-on, sometimes missing information that's clearly in the document, sometimes drifting off-topic even when the right chunks were retrieved. The problem is usually not the code. It's the parameters . RAG has four core parameters, like four knobs on a radio: Chunk Size : How long