A field note on why your RAG app doesn't have a model problem — it has a retrieval problem. Built on a 346-page scanned Kannada novel: OCR, hybrid retrieval, reranking, deterministic routing — and the numbers that proved it worked. The moment I stopped trusting my own system was the moment it c...
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/amruth/why-pure-vector-search-fails-on-kannada-literature-and-how-hybrid-rrf-fixed-it-56jj)