The Search Foundation Every RAG System Needs

Mother of AI Project, Phase 1: Week 3

If retrieval is shaky, answers will be shaky. This week we make search solid before touching chunking or embeddings.

Hey there 👋,

Welcome to the lesson three of “The Mother of AI” - Zero to RAG series!

Quick recap:

A strong RAG system is a chain: infra → data → search → generation.
Weeks 1–2 gave us the plumbing and live data. Now we turn that data into so…