Stop Chunking Large Files Solely by Byte Size
bclavie · x · 2026-07-16
This post highlights a common engineering pitfall: when feeding large files into a worker, many people default to hard-splitting them by fixed byte ranges.
However, byte boundaries ignore semantics and can easily sever a sentence, a table, or even a video scene, degrading retrieval quality.
The core message is that chunking strategies should be designed around content structure and semantic boundaries, rather than just aiming to fit content into a worker.
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