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Lernreise 4/7: The Grand Plan: RAG, Vectors, and a 7-Cent Bargain

Before touching a single node in n8n, I asked Gemini a sensible question: for this problem, is n8n or Python the better choice? Gemini said n8n, clearly and confidently. It was the right tool for orchestration, it said. Visual workflows, lower barrier, easier to iterate. Perfect for this use case. I want to note this for the record, because it becomes relevant later. The architecture I had in mind had several parts.

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Lernreise 2/7: The Starting Point: A Thousand Untagged Documents

Six months ago I migrated my homelab. The old machine was a netbook that had served faithfully for years, and by the end of its life it was doing things that its manufacturer had never intended and would probably have considered unkind. I replaced it with a MiniPC: an N150 processor, 16 GB of RAM, a form factor that fits in a drawer. It runs Proxmox. It is fast. It is quiet. I am unreasonably pleased with it.

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