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Seven Levels of RAG and the Failure Each One Fixes
RAG is a ladder of levels, and each level was added to fix a specific failure in the one below. A solo builder should climb only as far as their own failures require.
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RAG is a ladder of levels, and each level was added to fix a specific failure in the one below. A solo builder should climb only as far as their own failures require.
For a single person's knowledge base, markdown articles compiled by an LLM plus a generated index answer questions without retrieval infrastructure. That holds up to a size limit, and the limit is worth naming.
Traditional RAG falls apart when your codebase spans hundreds of repos. Graph RAG fixes retrieval -- ICM fixes the workflow around it. Here's how to combine them.