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		CuriouslyC 81 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The RAG Obituary: Killed by agents, buried by cont... So you're saying grep isn't a form of information retrieval?

tw1984 80 days ago [–]

information retrieval is a much larger superset of RAG.

grep + agentic LLM is not RAG.

leobg 80 days ago | [–]

Retrieval Augmented Generation. How you do the retrieving is irrelevant. You can do it manually and it’ll still be RAG. Also, most RAG pipelines combine multiple approaches - BM25, embeddings, etc..

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