Chunking quietly sets the ceiling on RAG quality, and 'split every 500 tokens' leaves recall on the table. The signal is knowing the strategy families and the parent-child trick that decouples retrieval size from context size.
Updated Aug 2026 · Grounded in real Applied AI Engineer interview loops and written to a senior-engineer editorial bar.
Chunking quietly sets the ceiling on RAG quality, and 'split every 500 tokens' leaves recall on the table. The signal is knowing the strategy families and the parent-child trick that decouples retrieval size from context size.
No comments yet — be the first to share your approach.
