10 Positions for Enterprise RAG That Mainstream Tutorials Get Wrong

A manifesto laying out ten architectural positions that a multi-part enterprise RAG series argues against mainstream RAG tutorials: treating vector stores as a fallback rather than the entry point, using expert-maintained keyword dictionaries instead of relying on better embedding models, keeping rerankers as a secondary tool, avoiding a single vector store for all document types, recognizing that enterprise corpora differ from web-scale search, designing systems to amplify domain experts rather than replace them, preferring deterministic dispatchers over autonomous agents, evaluating per-failure-mode rather than by aggregate accuracy, passing relational structured data between pipeline bricks instead of raw strings, and treating citations as verifiable evidence rather than decoration. The piece also maps these positions to specific articles across five parts of the series covering document parsing, question parsing, retrieval, generation, corpus-scale architecture, and production evaluation.

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