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You do not need a vector database for your first RAG chatbot
Community description: For forty pages, or four hundred, BM25 keyword scoring, a synonym list and a pinned rules block are usually enough.
Dev.to | Oct 6, 2026 | Manoj Sethi
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Take a real question a customer types: “can I get a refund? ” Keyword scoring. Twenty lines: // Expand the question before scoring it. Log every question and the chunks it returned.
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