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2026-04-28 19:49
Your AI agent needs data. Here's how to feed it without RAG.
Your AI agent is smart. It can write code, plan projects, debug errors. But ask it about your data — "how many orders did we get yesterday?" — and it falls apart.
The usual fix is RAG: chunk your data, embed it, stuff it into a vector store, pray the retrieval finds the right rows. It works 60% of the time. The other 40%, the agent hallucinates numbers, mixes up customers, invents trends that don...
