Teaching AI Something It Was Never Trained On
2026-05-14 · 13 parts · No login required
Hands-on RAG: give a local AI a brand-new language it has never seen and watch retrieval do the work.
Part 1
Teaching AI Something It Was Never Trained On
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Part 2
Why use local AI?
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Part 3
Why not fine-tuning?
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Part 4
The research backed up the failures
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Part 5
Retrieve, Augment, Generate
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Part 6
Normal RAG
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Part 7
OpenWebUI, the 10-minute RAG setup
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Part 8
Where normal RAG quietly breaks
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Part 9
With RAG Proxy
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Part 10
Wiring the proxy in, one config change
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Part 11
Technology stack
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Part 12
More features (the parts we did not demo)
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Part 13
Same interface. Everything smart happens upstream.
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