Vibe coder asks AI agent to classify his RAG setup; verdict: it's not RAG yet

Kooky-Sorbet-5996 · reddit · 2026-10-07

A Reddit user had SWE-2 High audit his legal-document pipeline: the agent concluded it's a map-reduce summarization pipeline, not RAG (no query-driven retrieval), the deterministic table lookup is correctly superior to vectors, and the curated corpus is 'RAG-ready' — but missing the 'R'. A neat example of agents giving candid, structured architecture reviews.

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