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14. Honest admission — what this module cannot teach you

~6 min read. The frame of what's missing, what changes fastest, and where to keep learning.

[Stub — to be written]

Outline:

  • The frontier is moving fast: vision-LLMs are absorbing more of the stack each quarter
  • What's deliberately out of scope: audio/video ingestion (module 34), real-time streaming ingestion
  • The hand-tuning trap: every domain (legal, medical, financial filings) has its own ingestion quirks
  • When to build vs buy: LlamaParse / Reducto / Azure DI vs a custom pipeline
  • Why this module is the highest-ROI module in the RAG track — and the most often skipped
  • Pointer forward: module 13 (RAG fundamentals) consumes ingestion output, module 14 (advanced RAG) revisits ingestion in light of retrieval-quality feedback