RAG Didn’t Solve AI. It Made AI a Systems Engineering Problem.

by Nat Currier 19 min read
AISystems EngineeringArchitectureBusiness Strategy
RAG Didn’t Solve AI. It Made AI a Systems Engineering Problem.
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RAG became the default way to ground LLMs on enterprise data, but that did not solve AI reliability. It exposed a harder reality: retrieval is infrastructure, and the real work is systems design, governance, and evaluation.

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Nat Currier. "RAG Didn’t Solve AI. It Made AI a Systems Engineering Problem.." nat.io, 2026-02-25. https://nat.io/blog/rag-systems-engineering-problem

Why retrieval-augmented generation became table stakes and what actually matters next: system design, governance, evaluation, and engineering reality.

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