Common Pitfalls in RAG Applications: What to Avoid When Using Vector Search and Embeddings

Here’s the demo that always works: you point a notebook at a vector index, ask it a question, and it answers perfectly. Everyone claps. Three weeks later, the same system tells a customer that your refund window is 90 days when it’s 30, cites a document that doesn’t exist, and occasionally surfaces another tenant’s invoice in the context.