RAG is the one paradigm of modern AI that's completely uncontroversial (hallucinations aside) and will persist even if there's an AI-industry crash. The more a

RAG is the one paradigm of modern AI that's completely uncontroversial (hallucinations aside) and will persist even if there's an AI-industry crash. The more annoying part of RAG is that it's so effective it's creating a lot of confusing best practices and a ton of venture capital around tooling, notably vector stores (which IMO are insufficiently differentiated) and libraries to integrate a RAG flow (LangChain being the common painful example, but RAG is simple enough that it doesn't even need its own abstraction).