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Ravi Vargas10/7/2025

Search & Retrieval Engineer · Transportation

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Parsing is the product. Embeddings are the commodity.

I've replaced three 'RAG is solved' pipelines this year. The pattern is always the same: layout-aware parsing, hybrid retrieval, and a reranker, not a bigger embedding model.

#rag #pdf-parsing #context-engineering #agents #workflow

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Ingrid Martinez8/26/2025

Senior Solutions Architect · Agriculture

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Episodic logs are not structured state.

Short-term scratchpads, long-term knowledge stores, and session boundaries each solve different problems. Treating chat history as memory is why your agent forgets what mattered.

#agents #memory #context-engineering #workflow #architecture

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Deepa Brooks10/28/2025

Senior RAG Engineer · PropTech

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Vector search on CSV-shaped text is a trap.

Tabular enterprise data needs schema-aware retrieval, SQL or semantic layers, and explicit join logic. Dumping rows into chunks and embedding them is why agents confidently cite the wrong quarter.

#rag #agents #context-engineering #workflow #engineering

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Yoha2/25/2025

Founder · Agentic AI

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The prompt is dead. Long live the blueprint.

"Prompting" quietly split into four disciplines at four altitudes. The people pulling 10x ahead aren't writing better prompts — they're writing specs an autonomous agent can build from while they get coffee.

#prompts #context-engineering #agents #skills #spec