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RAG is not a strategy, it's a componentai-ml8 min
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RAG is not a strategy, it's a component
Teams keep shipping retrieval pipelines and calling it a product decision. What's actually being decided.
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Everything else — orchestration, alerting, lineage — is easier once reruns are safe by default.
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