LAB 1RAG Optimization Series

Basic RAG & Why It Fails

This is RAG with poor defaults — large chunks (1000 chars), no overlap, basic embedding. Watch how the quality suffers. We'll fix each of these in subsequent labs.

Chunk Size:1000 chars⚠
Overlap:None⚠
Model:text-embedding-3-small
Top-K:2 chunks⚠
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