RAG & Agents
RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
Retrieving relevant documents at query time and conditioning generation on them.
Why interviewers ask about it
It is a search problem with a generation step attached - 80% of the effort belongs in retrieval. Measure retrieval and generation separately or you cannot tell which is failing.
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