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
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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 context
RING HISTORY
Aug 2026 — set to Retired