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RAGHard· Freshness· Fine-tuning· System Design

One engineer wants to solve index staleness by fine-tun...

Fine-tuning is not an effective tool for real-time knowledge updates. A retrieval-side architecture using synchronous invalidation flags provides the necessary freshness. Additionally, you should plan for failure modes, such as embedding endpoint downtime, by using a fallback path similar to that used for failed retrieval.

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