RAG in Practice — Part 8: RAG in Production — What Breaks After Launch

Part 8 of 8 — RAG Article Series Previous: Your RAG System Is Wrong. Here's How to Find Out Why. (Part 7) The System That Stopped Being Right TechNova's RAG system was correct at launch. Three months later, it was confidently wrong. The return policy had changed. The firmware changelog had new versions. The warranty terms had been revised. The documents in the CMS were current. The chunks in the vector index were not. A production RAG system does not fail all at once. It drifts, degrades quietly