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How should you approach designing a retrieval-augmented...

A strong design process involves stating the five key decisions within the first minute of the discussion. By identifying the corpus size, query volume, and latency budget, you can justify each component choice as a direct resolution to these constraints. This approach ensures the design is defensible and modular, rather than relying on arbitrary tool selection.

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