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Curated insights and technical field notes on Build notes.

Current note

Building a RAG pipeline that processes documents with incremental updates

The newest published argument and its visual artifact lead the page.

Editorial posture

The first note sets the editorial contract: one dated argument, explicit tradeoffs, and visual proof close to the section it explains. More lanes appear when enough published work gives them substance.

Decision frame

Recommendation, rejected paths, and the operating proof behind the call.

Visual proof

Diagrams and original artifacts stay near the argument they explain.

Source posture

Public claims stay tied to released work or cited material.

AI systems

Building a RAG pipeline that processes documents with incremental updates

A build note from a RAG document system tested on real content. The retrieval was the easy part; the document lifecycle - incremental add/delete and domain separation - was the real work.

Lead essay

The current Doric argument leads the index ahead of the chronological archive.

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Current library

One approved argument leads the library.

The archive starts narrow by design. New Field Notes enter only when they meet the same proof, source, and visual-artifact bar.