AI ENGINEER DEX
RetiredObsoleteRE-003Retired 2024

Split documents purely to fit the context limit

Chunking documents only because the window was four to eight thousand tokens.

WHAT CHANGED

WasSplit long documents to fit the context limit
NowNothing — the constraint is gone

Nothing replaced it because nothing needed to. Chunking for retrieval quality is a different practice and still valid.

SOURCES

START HERERAG vs long contextBlog · LangChain · 2024

RING HISTORY

Aug 2026 — set to Retired

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