FWIW, having written a simple RAG system from "scratch" (meaning not using frameworks or api calls), it's not more complicated than doing it this way with langchain etc.
This post is mostly about plumbing. It's probably the right way to do it if it needs to be scaled. But for learning, it obscures what is essentially simple stuff going on behind the scenes.
This post is mostly about plumbing. It's probably the right way to do it if it needs to be scaled. But for learning, it obscures what is essentially simple stuff going on behind the scenes.