Anti-patterns

• Char-count chunking on prose Splitting documents into fixed N-character windows for retrieval. Cheap, ubiquitous, and quietly destroys retrieval quality on real prose. anti_patterns.chunking
• Single-retriever pipeline Trusting one retriever (usually dense vector) to handle every query shape. Works on demos, fails on long-tail queries — keyword-heavy, code, IDs, exact phrases. anti_patterns.retrieval
• The read-only wiki nobody updates The Confluence / Notion / wiki space that everyone references and nobody edits. Drifts from reality, nobody trusts it, but it stays up because removing it feels worse than ignoring it. The default end state of most team knowledge bases. anti_patterns.governance