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Graph RAG: Knowledge-Graph Grounding as the Next-Gen Retrieval Substrate

A friend of mine runs research at a corporate venture arm. She asked me last winter why her team’s brand…

Jul 14, 2026 Yves Mulkers 56K views 11 min read

Citations as the User-Visible Proof of Grounding: Why Clickable Sources Are the Trust Surface of Every Serious RAG System

The first time I really watched someone use Perplexity, I noticed something the engineering write-ups had not prepared me for.…

Jul 13, 2026 Yves Mulkers 84K views 12 min read

Parametric RAG and the Next Grounding Front

The context window is the bandwidth bottleneck. That is the sentence the field has been circling around for two years…

Jul 12, 2026 Yves Mulkers 86K views 11 min read

Document RAG for the Enterprise: Chunking, Retrieval Quality, and the Evaluation Problem

Document RAG looks easy in a demo and quietly fails eighteen months in. The demo pulls three clean paragraphs from…

Jul 11, 2026 Yves Mulkers 144K views 12 min read

What RAG actually is, and why it became the substrate under every serious LLM system

Nobody pitches “this app uses RAG” anymore. That is the whole signal. The moment a pattern stops being the headline,…

Jul 10, 2026 Yves Mulkers 182K views 12 min read

Observability and Audit for LLM Systems: The Side of the Harness That Faces the Regulator

Last quarter I sat in on an incident review for a customer-facing assistant that had quoted a refund policy the…

Jul 9, 2026 Yves Mulkers 41K views 19 min read

Hallucination Taxonomies and Mitigations: Naming the Failure Mode So You Can Engineer Against It

The first time I heard a senior engineer say “the model hallucinated” without flinching, I knew the conversation had turned.…

Jul 8, 2026 Yves Mulkers 96K views 21 min read

LLM Evaluation and Benchmarking: From Leaderboard Score to Harness Proof

A friend who tunes concert pianos told me once that the factory test is the easy part. The piano leaves…

Jul 7, 2026 Yves Mulkers 105K views 18 min read

Guardrails and Runtime Controls: The Layer That Decides What the Model Is Allowed to Say

A friend of mine runs the lock on a stretch of Flemish canal. The river on one side sits four…

Jul 6, 2026 Yves Mulkers 25K views 19 min read

RAG and Grounding Patterns: How Retrieval Became the Substrate Under Every Serious LLM System

In 2023 the room used to ask whether retrieval-augmented generation was worth building. In 2026 the room assumes it is…

Jul 5, 2026 Yves Mulkers 72K views 20 min read