RAG vs Agentic RAG: How AI Systems Learn to Think Before They Search
You ask an AI assistant a question. It confidently gives you an answer β but the answer is wrong, outdated, or completely made up. This is called a hallucination, and it's one of the most frustrating problems with large language models (LLMs) out of the box.
RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) was invented to fix exactly this. And Agentic RAG takes that fix to a whole new level. In this guide, we'll break down both architectures from scratch β what they are, how they work step by step, and when to use which.