How AI Apps Actually Use LLMs: Introducing RAG

If you’ve been exploring AI applications, you’ve probably come across the term RAG. It appears everywhere - chatbots, AI assistants, internal knowledge tools, and documentation search. But before understanding how it works, it helps to understand why it exists in the first place. Large language models are powerful. However, when used on their own, they have a few fundamental limitations. ⚠️ Problems With LLMs On Their Own LLMs are impressive — until they start failing in real-w...