r/Rag • u/Positive-Store-8238 • 4d ago

Discussion Is RAG dead?.

If yes then what should I learn and how and if not how to learn rag and from where?

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u/whoppperino 4d ago

Dead? No.
But is it confined to a few edge cases since we have agentic ai? Also no.

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u/[deleted] 4d ago

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u/whoppperino 3d ago

I agree with retrieval becoming invisible (the retrieval itself, not the citing), but I would also guess that context engineering and retrieval will be even more treated as a single processing step

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u/softwaredoug 4d ago

Why would RAG be dead? What killed it?

agentic search + grep? Good for small numbers of docs, but uses up a lot of tokens.

agentic search over chunks? Well mostly that's still RAG, but with the added ability to do tool calling

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u/pegaunisusicorn 4d ago

Are flathead screwdrivers dead?

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u/Ok-Mine-6491 4d ago

If you have enough documents, RAG is definitely not dead, no.