Comment by whakim

For technical domains, stuffing the context full of related-and-irrelevant or possibly-conflicting information will lead to poor results. The examples of long-context retrieval like finding a fact in a book really aren't representative of the types of context you'd be working with in a RAG scenario. In a lot of cases the problem is information organization, not retrieval, e.g. "What is the most authoritative type of source for this information?" or "How do these 100 documents about X relate to each other?"