Knowledge Management

If you want to make a good RAG tool that uses your documentation, you should start by making a search engine over those documents that would be good enough for a human to use themselves. This is exactly what I’ve been trying to communicate in my org in the past few months. It’s 2024 and we still can’t have a proper search engine in organizations to find relevant information from various sources. While this problem remains to be solved, organizations are adapting RAG and AI into their tooling, but are missing the important R of the RAG: Retrieval. I’ve been an advocate of prioritizing search engines over any AI related tool in the past few months, and I found it refreshing to read about this somewhere else: ...

TLDR: Here is a simplified diagram of how I keep reading articles, books, and other materials without overwhelming myself or having a never-ending pile of to-read items. In this blog post, I will go into the details of each part of the workflow, the tools I currently use, the alternatives I have tried, why they work for me, and what I can improve in the process. Feel free to use the above table of contents to jump to the section that is more interesting to you. ...