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bge-reranker Truncates at 512 Tokens: 31% of My Chunks Got Cut

My RAG pipeline had a question it kept getting wrong. "How do I fix the replication lag alert on the orders DB?" The answer was in my runbooks. Retrieval found the right chunk at rank 3.

  • BGE-reranker truncates chunks at 512 tokens
  • 31% of chunks had correct answers cut off
  • Fix involves chunking to reranker's budget

How to avoid being a ‘meat proxy’ when you use AI

“Meat proxy” is the worst insult you can hurl at me right now. The term, popularized in August 2026 by the software engineer Niklas Gruhn, refers to a person who takes what artificial intelligence generates and passes it on to another person without reading or even thinking about the output first.

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