RAG Works Great Until Production Shows Up
So you built a RAG system. You watched one YouTube tutorial, copy-pasted some LangChain code, threw 3 PDFs at a local Chroma instance, and it answered "What is the refund policy?" with suspicious accuracy. You showed it to your manager. They clapped. Someone said the word "production." And now you're here, because production is not a demo with more users. Production is a demo that has been sleep-deprived, underfed, and actively lied to by your own data pipeline.








