RAG, AI Agents, and Agentic AI: Most Developers Are Confusing All Three

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/rag-ai-agents-and-agentic-ai-most-developers-are-confusing-all-three. RAG, AI Agents, and Agentic AI are three different things. Most developers are building the wrong one. Here is the clearest explanation you will find. Check more stories related to machine-learning at: https://hackernoon.com/c/machine-learning. You can also check exclusive content about #rag, #ai-agents, #agentic-ai, #llm, #devops, #platform-engineering, #machine-learning, #generative-ai, and more. This story was written by: @santoshmahale. Learn more about this writer by checking @santoshmahale's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Generative AI is a token prediction engine. Everything else is built on top of that. RAG gives the model access to external knowledge at query time using embeddings and semantic search. It retrieves and generates, but does not act.