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The Bug Wasn't the Model, It Was the Middle

A developer attempted to build a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline for large books, initially using NVIDIA's nemotron 3 embed 1b model and Qdrant Cloud for vector embeddings. While this approach worked well for specific question-answering tasks, it failed when attempting to summarize entire books, often omitting crucial details or losing narrative flow. The developer discovered that the issue was not token limits but the AI

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The Bug Wasn't the Model, It Was the Middle

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Syed Ibrahim ·

    The Bug Wasn't the Model, It Was the Middle

    <blockquote> <p>What I Learned Building a RAG Pipeline for 1000 Page Books</p> </blockquote> <p>A few weeks ago I decided to build a RAG pipeline for books. Not blog posts, not ten page PDFs, actual books, the kind that run 500 to 1000 pages. I knew big players already existed in…