Agentic RAG Is Powerful Until the Retrieval Loop Eats Your Budget
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An agentic RAG system can do something a simple retrieval pipeline cannot: notice missing evidence, rewrite the query, fetch more context, verify contradictions, and try again. That is also exactly how it quietly becomes expensive. A demo looks great. The agent decomposes the question, retrieves fr…
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- 2026-09-09 17:34 · DEV Community — AI
Agentic RAG Is Powerful Until the Retrieval Loop Eats Your Budget