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2026-08-15 14:20
Our First RAG Pipeline Failed on Day One
At 15:53 on March 10 — the day after MockEvalio's second commit — I shipped a RAG system: job description upload with PDF, DOCX, and text extraction, a chunker, an embedding service, a vector search layer over pgvector, and a pipeline that turned an uploaded job description into five interview questions grounded in it. Seven hours later, the same evening, the step that turns text into embeddings s...
