alt Hacker NewsI think generally we are going from vector based search, to agentic tool use, and hierarchy based systems like skills.
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skeptrune • today at 6:27 PM
Vector search has moved from a "complete solution" to just one tool among many which you should likely provide to an agent.
Agents doing retrieval has been around for quite a while
https://huggingface.co/docs/smolagents/en/examples/rag
Agentic RAG: A More Powerful Approach We can overcome these limitations by implementing an Agentic RAG system - essentially an agent equipped with retrieval capabilities. This approach transforms RAG from a rigid pipeline into an interactive, reasoning-driven process.
The innovation of the blogpost is in the retrieval step.