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How to Evaluate RAG Retrieval in 2026: Question Sets, Metrics That Mislead, and a Practical Recipe

Community description: Many RAG failures get blamed on "the LLM" when the generator never had a chance: the passage it...

Dev.to | Nov 6, 2026 | Muhammad Hussnain Jamil

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Synthetic queries do not look like real ones. Synthetic sets rank retrievers better than generators. Use recall@k or claim-level context recall for multi-fact questions.

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