Building a Smarter Product Chatbot: What RAG Gets Right—and Where It Breaks
A hands-on comparison of a prompt-engineered assistant and a RAG pipeline, with real failure modes, evaluation results, and practical takeaways.
Dec 22, 202511 min read16
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Building a Basic Product Inquiry Chatbot with an LLM — Part 3: Improving Context and Evaluating Performance
Adding more context and basic primer on evaluation
Oct 29, 20256 min read7
Building a Basic Product Inquiry Chatbot with an LLM — Part 2: Generating Responses and Building the Chat Interface
Make your chatbot respond naturally and create an interactive interface using Panel.
Oct 25, 20254 min read5
Building a Basic Product Inquiry Chatbot with an LLM — Part 1: Understanding User Intent
Learn how to build your first product inquiry chatbot using Python and a Large Language Model (LLM) — no advanced AI techniques required.
Oct 21, 20257 min read30