RAG is easy to diagram, but workflow design is the real hard part

sharpeye_wnl · x · 2026-07-24

The article argues that the hard part of AI systems is not the architecture diagram but the workflow.

A RAG stack can be explained in 15 minutes.
What actually matters is building something another person can run without hand-holding.
The author frames this as a design philosophy problem, not just a retrieval or model problem.

The message: teams overfocus on components and underinvest in operability, handoff, and repeatable usage.

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