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Choosing the Right Agentic Pattern: A Decision Framework
7 minAI
Thirty-three articles into this series, the question becomes how to pick among the patterns rather than how to build any one of them. A small set of decision trees and a simplicity test cover most cases.
Semantic vs Agentic RAG
8 minAI
Semantic RAG costs roughly $0.001 to $0.01 per query. Agentic RAG costs $0.02 to $0.10 and can be 5 to 50 times slower. The accuracy delta on multi-hop questions is also real. A short guide to picking the right default.