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RAG From a Backend Engineer's POV: It's a Data Pipeline, Not a Magic Trick

Retrieval-augmented generation has been wrapped in enough mystique to obscure that it's mostly an ETL problem. What the pipeline actually looks like, where the real engineering happens, and the failure modes that have nothing to do with the model.

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