// Towards Data Science · 9 May 2026

RAG Is Blind to Time — I Built a Temporal Layer to Fix It in Production

Three weeks into testing, a learner told me my AI tutor gave her the wrong answer. Not obviously wrong — just outdated enough to mislead. That was the moment I realized something most RAG systems quietly ignore: they have no sense of time. My system retrieved the most similar document, not the most...

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