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I just quit my job as a senior AI developer, and while helping hire my replacement, I realized how few people actually know how AI apps work.
In this episode, I walk through Retrieval-Augmented Generation step by step—the same system I built at work—and show you the real skills developers need right now.
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Chapters
1. Quitting And Why It Matters (00:00:00)
2. The Real-World RAG Use Case (00:02:30)
3. Why Web Devs Should Lean In (00:05:20)
4. North Star: AI Inside Web Apps (00:07:45)
5. Vectors 101 And Embeddings (00:10:30)
6. Vector Databases And Tools (00:13:40)
7. Scraping Data And Chunking (00:16:30)
8. Retrieval Flow In Next.js (00:20:00)
9. Structured Outputs With Zod (00:23:00)
10. Streaming UX And Vercel AI (00:25:00)
11. Agents Without The Hype (00:27:00)
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