
RAG: Does Your AI Project Actually Need It?
RAG isn't a universal solution, it's a precision tool. How to decide if your project needs it, how it actually works, and how to avoid the mistakes that break it.
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Practical perspectives on software, AI, and automation from the team at Automathing.

RAG isn't a universal solution, it's a precision tool. How to decide if your project needs it, how it actually works, and how to avoid the mistakes that break it.

An AI agent doesn't crash: it hallucinates, loops, picks the wrong tool, and still returns 200 OK. How we built observability for our agents' reasoning.

Full autonomy is a risk on critical actions. How to add human-in-the-loop checkpoints to your AI agent workflows, with a real example from TowerZ.

How we built a multi-agent architecture at Automathing: one orchestrator per project, specialized AI agents, and rules written from real errors.

A pragmatic guide to architectural decisions that let small teams move fast without building technical debt they'll regret.