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RAG: Giving AI Access to Your Own Data π€π
Community description: Imagine asking ChatGPT: βWhat is our company's leave policy?β It can be a great question, but...
Dev.to | Sep 30, 2026 | Elizabeth Sobiya
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Suppose you have 500 company documents. βHow many days of annual leave do I get? β βEmployees receive 20 days of annual leave per year. β That information is then passed to the LLM. βYou get 20 days of annual leave per year. β The LLM didn't need to memorize your employee handbook. Retrieve relevant product information before generating a response. If the system retrieves the wrong information, the LLM can still produce the wrong answer.
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