'People thought RAG would replace structured databases' — AI circle revisits LangChain hype
teodorio · x · 2026-10-30
Quoting a post asking 'remember LangChain? what was that all about again?', teodorio quips that people somehow thought RAG would replace structured databases.
A snapshot of the AI community's collective reckoning with the 2023–2024 RAG/LangChain hype: vector search never killed traditional databases, and engineering practice has returned to structured data and more pragmatic architectures.
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