AI article
Agentic RAG 2026: When the AI Decides How It Searches
Community description: From passive pipeline to active agent: How Self-RAG, CRAG, and Adaptive RAG are revolutionizing retrieval-augmented generation in 2026—with real costs, latencies, and production stacks.
Dev.to | Sep 13, 2026 | saaro
Automated excerpt
While RAG in 2023 was still a simple pipeline – embed query, fetch top-K chunks, stuff into prompt, generate – the architecture has since split into three independent directions: Agentic RAG, Graph RAG, and Long-Context approaches. The core difference between classic and agentic RAG lies in the control logic. In 2026, Agentic RAG is no longer an experimental gimmick, but a mature architecture for all cases where simple RAG reaches its limits.
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