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Avi Chawlaยท 2025-11-06 06:30
You are in an AI engineer interview at Google.The interviewer asks:"Our data is spread across several sources (Gmail, Drive, etc.)How would you build a unified query engine over it?"You: "I'll embed everything in a vector DB and do RAG."Interview over!Here's what you missed:Devs treat context retrieval like a weekend project.Their mental model is simple: "Just embed the data, store them in vector DB, and call it a day."This works beautifully for static sources.But the problem is that no real-world workflow ...