A 1960 Disney comic nailed RAG: boil an encyclopedia, pour out the answer
veterinarian23 · reddit · 2026-10-27
A Redditor shares Carl Barks' 1960 Gyro Gearloose comic: the inventor writes a problem on paper, drops it into water where he boiled an encyclopedia, adds alphabet soup, and out pours a sheet with the answer already on it.
The in-comic answer even reasons out "trade the money for savings bonds so you never have to move it." netizens are amazed that this retrieve-knowledge-and-emit-answers pipeline anticipated today's RAG/LLM workflows 66 years early.
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