Hugo Martin

September 2026

1. Answered Is RAG still worth it now that context windows are enormous?

   Sep 21, 2026

   At 200 pages, put the lot in context. Retrieval adds a chunking strategy, an index to keep in sync, an embedding model to maintain and a recall problem, and at that size it buys you nothing but a token bill. The crossover in our case was somewhere around 5MB, and it moved as caching got cheaper. Do the simple thing until the token cost or the latency actually hurts.

2. Shared a bide Friday Weekly Review That Builds Next Week's Plan With Real Math

   Sep 13, 2026

   Turn this week's done list and open loops into a capacity-checked plan for next week: triage every loose end, pick three outcomes, and block the time.