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lesspoo Publishes Guidance on Chunking Mistakes and Premature Knowledge Bases
New articles help teams stop blaming the model for retrieval problems that started in the corpus.
August 17, 2026. lesspoo today published practical guidance at lesspoo.com for teams building retrieval-augmented systems and internal knowledge bases. The articles address two common stalls: chunking choices that look like model failures, and the urge to build a knowledge base before the team knows which questions are worth answering well.
The pieces walk through chunking mistakes that look like model problems, and when a team should not build a knowledge base yet. Both are written in lesspoo's usual lowercase register and aimed at engineers who have already tried embeddings, a vector store, and a weekend of prompt edits.
"if the chunks are wrong, the model will sound confident and still be useless," a lesspoo representative said. "fix the cuts before you buy another model or another dashboard."
The guidance is free on the lesspoo blog. lesspoo continues to help teams make search and retrieval suck less, with an emphasis on corpus work over demo polish.
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