> TL;DR — Every .NET RAG project quietly ships a Python sidecar to do one job: chunk documents. I got rid of mine. DocNest .NET is an idiomatic C# / .NET 8 port of my DocNesthttps://github.com/tailorgunjan93/docnest engine — embeddings run locally ON...

I Built a Local-First AI Desktop Knowledge Base — Here's What I Learned After building docnest-aihttps://pypi.org/project/docnest-ai/ — a hybrid RAG engine for Python — the next logical question was: what does a great end-user app built on top of i...

It's a client demo. They're watching. I type: "Which region had the highest revenue growth last quarter?" My RAG app — three weeks of work, carefully tuned embeddings, clever prompts — responds instantly. The client nods. Writes it down. The answer...