RAG means Retrieval-Augmented Generation. It's mostly used in casual online conversation. It's casual and generally safe with friends and online. It's standard online vocabulary; nothing inherently concerning about hearing it.
Retrieval-Augmented Generation. A pattern where an LLM pulls relevant documents from a vector database before answering, grounding output in real information.
"We're building a RAG app so the bot can cite our actual product docs."
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Retrieval-Augmented Generation — feeding an LLM live, retrieved-from-a-database context at inference time so it doesn't hallucinate. The architectural pattern that quietly powers most production AI products in 2026.
We're not training a model — we're just doing RAG over the help docs and letting GPT do the rest.
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RAG means Retrieval-Augmented Generation. It's mostly used in casual online conversation. It's casual and generally safe with friends and online. It's standard online vocabulary; nothing inherently concerning about hearing it.
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