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26 Aug 2026, 4:39 PM	Hacker News	7.5	RAG Is Simpler Than You Think Rafael Pierre argues most teams over-engineer RAG by jumping straight to embeddings and vector databases when full-text search (BM25, Postgres FTS, Elasticsearch) would suffice. He lays out decision factors—data freshness, corpus churn, query patterns, scale, and team ML expertise—and presents a tiered 'recipe book' starting from plain full-text search, escalating only when data justifies it. Why: Before reaching for a vector database, check your query volume: under 1K queries/day with keyword-heavy queries and stable proprietary terminology likely means BM25/Postgres FTS is enough—zero API cost, sub-10ms latency, fully debuggable, no chunking strategy, no model deprecation risk. Move up the stack only when you have evidence the simpler approach is failing. rag retrieval full-text-search architecture ai-infrastructure

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26 Aug 2026, 4:39 PM

Hacker News

7.5

RAG Is Simpler Than You Think

Rafael Pierre argues most teams over-engineer RAG by jumping straight to embeddings and vector databases when full-text search (BM25, Postgres FTS, Elasticsearch) would suffice. He lays out decision factors—data freshness, corpus churn, query patterns, scale, and team ML expertise—and presents a tiered 'recipe book' starting from plain full-text search, escalating only when data justifies it.

Why: Before reaching for a vector database, check your query volume: under 1K queries/day with keyword-heavy queries and stable proprietary terminology likely means BM25/Postgres FTS is enough—zero API cost, sub-10ms latency, fully debuggable, no chunking strategy, no model deprecation risk. Move up the stack only when you have evidence the simpler approach is failing.