Episode
Is RAG Dead? Lessons from Building AI for Tax Law with Alex Bowcut - #769
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) · Jun 9, 2026 · 52 min
As context windows grow into the millions of tokens, many AI practitioners are questioning whether retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is still necessary. If modern models can ingest entire libraries of documents, why bother with retrieval at all? In this episode, Alex Bowcut, Head of Engineering at Sphere, explains why the answer depends on the application. Sphere uses AI to automate global…