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

Shared from nicolasbustamante.com on April 24, 2026.

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The thesis is deliberately provocative, which makes it useful. RAG is not simply dead, but the old chunk-embed-rerank default is under pressure from larger contexts, agentic retrieval loops, and document-native workflows.

I would keep this as a debate starter, not a doctrine. The production question is still which retrieval shape gives the model the right evidence at the right cost with inspectable failure modes.

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