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Are vector RAG pipelines becoming overkill for some agent workflows?

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I've been working with RAG for a while, and lately I've been wondering if we're overcomplicating things for certain agent workflows. I've spent a lot of time tweaking chunk sizes, embedding models, similarity thresholds, rerankers, etc. just to make an agent reliably find something as simple as an…

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  1. 2026-08-26 11:36 · r/learnmachinelearning
    Are vector RAG pipelines becoming overkill for some agent workflows?

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