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Send Your Retriever a Query, Not a Transcript

Aug 7, 2026

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Optimization techniques

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Send Your Retriever a Query, Not a Transcript

Most multi-turn RAG chatbots work like this: append each turn to a message list, send the whole thing, let the model sort it out. Splitting them is a small change with a measurable payoff.

Yatharth Lakhera
Yatharth Lakhera

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