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		simonw 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: So you wanna build a local RAG? That's excellent advice, the only downside being that collecting that eval data remains difficult and time-consuming. But if you want to build truly great search that's the approach to take.

scosman 3 months ago [–]

Agree totally. I’m spending half my time focused that problem (mostly synthetic data gen with guidance), and the other half on how to optimize once it works.

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