How I Rebuilt a RAG Chatbot into a Production-Ready, Modular Retrieval Framework

🚨 Why Most RAG Demos Fail in the Wild Short demo videos are easy. Real-world documents aren’t. My first RAG bot choked on: 📄 Long PDFs 📊 Structured data (tables, CSVs) 🌀 Messy, unformatted content The bigger problem?I couldn’t swap retriever...