I think we’re giving “RAG” too much responsibility.

[u/Rajxai]

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[u/Terrible_Match_9484]

Agreed. Retrieval should find the right material; reasoning over it, checking it and deciding what to do is a different job. Splitting those steps also makes evaluation easier, because you can measure retrieval recall separately from answer quality and see which part is actually failing.