Phase 21 · Build AI Engineer Portfolio Projects

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RAG Chatbot with a Custom Knowledge Base

Part of the AI Engineer Roadmap.

Summary

A production-quality RAG system over a real document set — the single most commonly requested AI engineer portfolio piece because it maps directly to real hiring needs.

How to Learn This

  • 1Use a genuinely useful knowledge base (docs, a book, a company's public content).
  • 2Add source citations and a clear 'I don't know' fallback for unanswerable questions.
  • 3Include a short write-up of your chunking, retrieval and evaluation choices.
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