where reranking mattered: worth it?

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Posting this in case it saves someone else a little time.

I'm not trying to build a perfect architecture diagram. I just want a sane starting point around Ollama and A6000.

Would rather learn from your scars than collect my own all at once.

If I had to summarize the lesson so far, it would be that clean setup and observability beat clever guesses.