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Real-World RAG Incidents: Lessons from a Production Rollout

A field report from rolling out retrieval-augmented generation in production, including cache bugs, bad embeddings, and how we fixed them.

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|Mar 10, 2026

Real-World RAG Incidents: Lessons from a Production Rollout

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