Hi Contra people, As you know RAG/LLM systems look easy in demo mode. The real learning starts when they hit production. 😅

I recently wrote a Medium article sharing some of my lessons learned while building and deploying RAG/LLM systems — the unexpected challenges, trade-offs, and things that only become obvious once real users and real data enter the picture.

👉 [https://medium.com/@mariavlahova.92/building-an-intelligent-faq-assistant-the-complete-production-rag-pipeline-ea7a3fcbbebd]

Now I’m curious to hear from the community:

What was your latest “Aha!” moment with RAG/LLM systems?

• What surprised you the most? • Which approaches worked (or didn’t)? • What would you do differently next time?

Would love to exchange practical lessons from real-world deployments 👇

#LLM #RAG #GenAI #AIEngineering #MachineLearning #MLOps