A 19th Century Author Taught Me RAG.

I asked a 14 billion parameter LLM to remember a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne and it told me it was written by Edith Wharton. This was a good thing, because I wanted to see first hand how Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) really works. I am writing this post to share the process and my results, in case there are others who are new to RAG and would like to read a case study on it. RAG is a method to improve the accuracy of LLM output. It creates and uses a separate database that the LLM