nbstmeOct 1

The RAG Obituary: Killed by agents, buried by context windows

https://www.nicolasbustamante.com/p/the-rag-obituary-killed-by-agents

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.

Nicolas Bustamante
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Show threaddymkOct 1
I don’t mind articles that have a hint of “an AI helped write this” as long as the content is actually informationally dense and well explained. But this article is an obvious ad, has almost no interesting information or summaries or insights, and has the… weirdly chipper? tone that AI loves to glaze readers with.
Show threadtptacekOct 2
How is this an ad? It's a couple thousand words about how they built something complicated that was then obsoleted.
Show threadserfOct 2

in the same vein that a 'Behind The Scenes Look At The Making of Jurassic Park' is , in fact, an ad.

having a company name pitched at you within the first two sentences is a pretty good give away.

Show threadtptacekOct 2
3/4 of what hits the front page is an "ad" by that standard. I don't see how you can get less promotional than a long-form piece about why your tech is obsolete. Seems just mean-spirited.
Show threadtptacekOct 1

There are typos in it, too. I don't think this kind of style critique is really on topic for HN.

Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

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