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Building a RAG System: There's No Recipe, But Here's a Map

Andros Fenollosa had never built a RAG system before he was handed a 1TB corpus of proprietary engineering documents and told to make it queryable in natural language - locally, with no external APIs, a problem many users of AI would like to solve for themselves. His writeup is an honest record of what broke and why. No complete recipe for RAG exists yet, but practitioner records like this one are how the field is actually being built.