Slides: RAG is dead, right?? — Kuba Rogut, Turbopuffer
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RAG is dead, right?? — Kuba Rogut, Turbopuffer
Relationship To World's Fair 2026
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Extracted Slides

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- AI slide classifier:
title_cardconfidence0.95 - Text source: agent_vision.
Slide text:
Rag is dead, right??
How hybrid, tool-rich retrieval is becoming the default for serious agentic search
Kuba Rogut
Deployed Engineer
April 9, 2026
Engineering the future of AI

- Recreated text/layout view: open HTML recreation
- AI slide classifier:
content_slideconfidence0.98 - Text source: advanced OCR
rapidocr-live/full. - OCR decision: ready — Content slide with a dense embedded product/chart screenshot and small UI text; OCR is likely better than manual transcription.
Slide text:
"RAGisdead"? turbopuffer
Retrieval Aug onted Ge
Mar 1, 2021- Feb 27, 2026
AIE
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AIEngineer
EUROPE

- Recreated text/layout view: open HTML recreation
- AI slide classifier:
content_slideconfidence0.98 - Text source: advanced OCR
rapidocr-live/border-trim/opencv-adaptive. - OCR decision: ready — Content slide with a dense comparison diagram and an embedded social/media screenshot; OCR is likely the efficient way to capture the body text.
Slide text:
from RAG to agentic retrieval turbopuffer
pattern Google Jeff Oean says bigger context windows alone are not enough Haldr. O - Hslow devrlope! tuyqns
★ + ★ AIE ★ From RAG - Agentic Rctrieval old -Stuff the prompt. Cross fingers - Retrieve once new -Search as needed - Reason in steps - Fetch what is useful Wmat matters is staged retrieval: lightweight mechanisms that narrow 3 trillion tokens down to 10 million, then to the mition you actually nood you don't need a trillion ot once, you noed the right mlion* Oelow_develops!
Retrieval is now iterative with tools
AlEngineer
EUROPE
Hidden Non-Slide Evidence
- `slide-001.jpg` —
speaker_stageconfidence0.98; Speaker standing at podium with audience visible; this is a stage shot, not a clean presentation slide frame.
Classification audit: raw/sources/slide-ai-classification/slides/UM6sFg_jdlE/audit.json
Slide-Derived Subjects To Review
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