The AI Engineer Interview Roadmap I Wish Every Candidate Followed

Interview

After interviewing 50+ AI Engineer candidates, I noticed a pattern: impressive GenAI projects can get you through the first 10 minutes—but strong fundamentals are what separate candidates who build AI systems from those who truly understand them. I’ve interviewed 50+ AI Engineer candidates over the past few months. Almost every resume looked impressive. RAG. AI … Read more

Why RAG Chatbots Struggle in Production

“Our RAG chatbot worked perfectly in the POC.But once we scaled to 50,000 documents… accuracy dropped to 60%.” If you’ve worked with enterprise RAG systems, you’ve probably heard this story. And if you ask most engineers what went wrong, you’ll hear answers like: ❌ These sound smart❌ They sometimes help❌ But they miss the real … Read more

RAG with Llama 2, LangChain and ChromaDB: A Practical Implementation

Introduction Learn how Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) works by building an end-to-end RAG pipeline with Llama 2, LangChain, Hugging Face embeddings, and ChromaDB — and understand how this early architecture compares with modern production RAG systems. Originally published: August 2, 2024Updated: September 2026 Introduction Large Language Models (LLMs) can answer questions, summarize text, generate code, and … Read more