The RAG Obituary: Killed by Agents, Buried by Context Windows

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RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) architectures are becoming obsolete as LLM context windows expand dramatically from 4K to 2M+ tokens. The author argues that agentic search systems using simple tools like grep and filesystem navigation outperform complex RAG pipelines involving chunking, embeddings, hybrid search, and

17m read timeFrom nicolasbustamante.com
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The Rise of Retrieval-Augmented GenerationThe Infrastructure Burden of Traditional RAGThe Emergence of Agentic Search - A New ParadigmWhy Agentic Search Represents the Future
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