// Hacker Noon · 24 March 2026

Production RAG Is Not a Vector Database: A Practical Blueprint for Retrieval You Can Trust

RAG systems are judged by answers, but you cannot improve what you cannot measure. Before you touch embeddings, pick the real tasks your assistant must handle. Common high-value tasks are Q&A over policy or product docs, troubleshooting workflows.

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