It depends is the honest answer. RAG only helps if retrieval surfaces the right chunk, and a bad index just feeds the model confident wrong context. I have watched RAG lower accuracy when the chunking was off, so I treat retrieval quality as the thing to measure first, not the model.
Kartik N V J K
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It depends is the honest answer. RAG only helps if retrieval surfaces the right chunk, and a bad index just feeds the model confident wrong context. I have watched RAG lower accuracy when the chunking was off, so I treat retrieval quality as the thing to measure first, not the model.