Your RAG Pipeline Is Lying to You. The Problem Is Not the Embeddings — Agentic RAG

“Retrieval-Augmented Generation is mostly a solved problem.” I heard this at a team review in late 2024. My reaction was: that depends entirely on what you mean by retrieval. img 1 I have spent the better part of two years building RAG pipelines in production - for healthcare record summarisation at my current firm, for NL-to-SQL workflows at my previous firm where the SQL is just the beginning, and for multi-agent research systems on Databricks. In that time I have hit the same ceiling over and over. The ceiling is not the embeddings.