Part 3: The Art of Chunking & Semantic Caching
1. Introduction: The Failure of Mechanical Chunking When building a RAG system, if you only split documents using traditional functions like RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter (e.g., slicing every 500 tokens), you are destroying your system. Mechanical slicing disrupts pronouns (“it”, “they”, “this project”) and completely causes context loss. A paragraph explaining “Compensation” on page 10 will be completely meaningless to an LLM if it is severed from the “Contract Name and Stakeholders” located on page 1. ...