· Amit Kothari
· AI Workflows and Operations
Your RAG system is not actually an AI agent
RAG retrieves a passage and writes an answer in one pass, then forgets it. That is a pipeline, not an agent. When retrieval grabs the wrong chunk, nothing in a one-shot system notices. Anthropic's own numbers show retrieval still failing after heavy engineering. The fix is not a smarter model, it is a process that verifies, re-queries, and escalates.