Why RAG Systems Fail In Production (And How To Fix Them)
Most RAG implementations work great in demos but collapse under real-world use. Here's what goes wrong and how enterprise teams fix it.
Priya Sharma
Engineering Team
The Context Explosion Problem
The Stale Data Trap
The Relevance Mismatch
Hybrid retrieval, versioning embeddings, fine-tuning embedding models, query expansion
Patterns that work - Lab 3 Advanced RAG Patterns
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