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Naive RAG Is Dead: The 4-Layer Architecture That Boosts Accuracy by 40% The Problem: Naive RAG Faithfulness is Only 0.54 Naive RAG systems have a critical flaw: faithfulness of just 0.54. This means approximately half of your answers misrepresent the...

Originally published at Gothar Tech Part of our 2025 software architecture series. The Librarian Principle The standard RAG diagram has become liturgy. Embed. Chunk. Store in a vector database. Retrieve by cosine similarity. Stuff into context. Gen...
You built the RAG system. You chunked well, embedded with a frontier model, added hybrid search, wired pgvector, and stood up evals. Your numbers look good. You ship. A week later, a user reports a wrong answer. You dig in and find the system retriev...
I sat down to write the pgvector section of this post—the HNSW index DDL, the reranker batching, the metadata filter shapes—and realized I kept reaching for the wrong file. The query I was proud of wasn’t the vector search. It was dedupeRagChunks. Th...

1. Introduction Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a powerful approach for deploying large language models (LLMs) in enterprise knowledge systems. Traditional LLMs rely solely on knowledge encoded during training, which makes them pr...
