RAG has taken the GenAI world by storm. This is a mistake of excess, which will resolve to a sane equilibrium eventually. But there’s a lot to say about RAG in the mean time. In this post I answer some key questions—Why is RAG so popular?What is RAG really? What are its essential defects?What are its alternatives?But, first, what is RAG?📌RAG is a GenAI application design pattern that supplements a user’s LLM prompt with some other information retrieved dynamically from somewhere in order to mak...