Agentic RAG Debate: Route the Query, Don't Just Retrieve

A Reddit discussion on agentic RAG architecture argues that iterative search loops only help with true multi-hop questions, and that multi-knowledge-base RAG is fundamentally a routing problem. The author questions the default enterprise approach of merging top-k results across 10+ knowledge bases, since it compares incompatible retrieval distributions.

2026-09-04 ~ 2026-09-04 · 2 related posts

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