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Rafael Lopes · Production AI Engineer · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (Brazilian) · member of Cloud Native Computing Foundation — Vancouver.

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Building a RAG Pipeline From Scratch

Most RAG tutorials hand you a vector store, a cosine-similarity call, and a prompt template, then declare victory. That pipeline falls over the first time...