The RAG Obituary: Killed by Agents, Buried by Context Windows
Why Retrieval-Augmented Generation Won’t Survive the Context Revolution and the End of Chunking, Embeddings, and Rerankers as We Know Them.
Great historical context about a key problem RAG was designed to solve and why there is a better solution now in agentic search - thanks to huge context windows in today’s LLMs. It’s also fascinating to learn how Claude Code cleverly uses decades-old filesystem tools to perform lightning fast navigation and regex searches without needing some sort of indexing.