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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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