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Articles tagged "Chatbot"

Sep 06, 2026
7 min read

How I Actually Built a RAG Chatbot That Works in Production

Building a RAG chatbot that actually works in production means solving about 10 problems the tutorials skip — from hybrid retrieval and hallucination guardrails to conversation context and knowing when to skip the LLM entirely. Here's what I learned building one from scratch.

  • RAG
  • AI Chatbot
  • LLM
  • Vector Search
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation
  • Generative AI
  • Enterprise AI
  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • ChromaDB
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Mar 30, 2026
6 min read

RAG Chatbots: Building AI That Knows Your Business

A retrieval-augmented chatbot is mostly a search problem with a language model on the end. Where these projects go wrong: chunking, retrieval quality, permissions, and having no way to tell whether the answers are any good.

  • NLP
  • RAG
  • Chatbot
  • LangChain
  • AI
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