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What a production RAG pipeline actually costs to run
Retrieval sounds cheap until you price embeddings, storage and re-indexing at real volume. Here is the arithmetic we use before quoting a client.
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Notes from building production AI systems.
AI & Engineering
AI & Engineering 1 min read
Why we build on Payload instead of a headless SaaS CMS
Self-hosted, Postgres-backed, and the content model lives in your repo. Here is the trade we made and when we would not make it.
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Field notes: shipping an AI agent that talks to real customers
Guardrails, evals and the escalation path matter more than the model. What we learned putting one into production.