From Naive to Agentic: The Complete RAG Evolution...

Retrieval Augmented Generation(RAG) Patterns The Evolution of RAG: 21 Patterns from Prototype to Production Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) started simple. Chunk your docs. Embed them. Retrieve the top-k. Stuff it in a prompt. That worked. Until it didn't. Until your retrieval missed context that lived three chunks away. Until your LLM hallucinated over perfectly good documents. Until your users asked questions that required reasoning, not just lookup. New patterns emerged to fix the failur