Victoria Slocum (@victorialslocum)

Can we please stop throwing an LLM in a chat UI and call it “agentic”? True agentic systems are built with actual intelligence. And no, I don't mean artificial intelligence or some special model. I mean well-architectured systems that 𝘥𝘰 things. I've seen this pattern way too many times lately: s...

🌶️ Hot take: I'm tired of RAG systems that just grab the first document and call it done. 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗥𝗔𝗚 is probably the only way RAG is 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 going to be useful. But what’s actually the difference? 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗡𝗮𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗥𝗔𝗚: Traditional RAG pipelines are essentially one-shot systems, they retrie...

GraphRAG vs NaiveRAG vs hybrid of both: What’s actually the difference, and which should you use? Most RAG systems today use what we call "Naive RAG" - a basic question-answer system with vector search based retrieval. It's super effective when your data is self-contained and well-structured. Each ...