Is It Still RAG If There's No Retrieval?
Description and use
<p>I've been shipping software for 28 years, 21 of them as a consultant working across over 100 different engagements. Past a certain point, a resume stops being a record and becomes a burdensome editing problem. Two pages can barely hold a half-dozen engagements, selected by hand for someone to read cold before I even get a chance to chat with them. Everything else is real experience that somebody, somewhere, might want to know.</p> <p>It bothered me that the odds are decent the one engagement a particular hiring manager is looking for didn't make the cut. Maybe the point-of-sale integration
Problem
<p>I've been shipping software for 28 years, 21 of them as a consultant working across over 100 different engagements. Past a certain point, a resume stops being a record and becomes a burdensome editing problem. Two pages can barely hold a half-dozen engagements, selected by hand for someone to read cold before I even get a chance to chat with them. Everything else is real experience that somebody, somewhere, might want to know.</p> <p>It bothered me that the odds are decent the one engagement a particular hiring manager is looking for didn't make the cut. Maybe the point-of-sale integration
Outcome
<p>I've been shipping software for 28 years, 21 of them as a consultant working across over 100 different engagements. Past a certain point, a resume stops being a record and becomes a burdensome editing problem. Two pages can barely hold a half-dozen engagements, selected by hand for someone to read cold before I even get a chance to chat with them. Everything else is real experience that somebody, somewhere, might want to know.</p> <p>It bothered me that the odds are decent the one engagement a particular hiring manager is looking for didn't make the cut. Maybe the point-of-sale integration
Evidence
Is It Still RAG If There's No Retrieval?
- Record date: 2026-10-04T02:40:49.053Z