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# [Is It Still RAG If There's No Retrieval?](https://jason.agostoni.net/is-it-still-rag-if-there-s-no-retrieval?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

28 years of career data in one Markdown file: how I built a recruiter-facing chatbot that barely counts as RAG. No embeddings, no vector store.

Oct 4 · 11 min read · jason.agostoni.net  
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