The Cult of Vector Search and the Forgotten Power of Graphs

By a mildly exasperated knowledge engineerLet’s talk about a dirty little secret in the world of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): most of you are doing it wrong.Not “wrong” like morally reprehensible or technically broken (although… sometimes). I mean wrong in the way that slapping duct tape on your leaky roof is technically a fix, until the next rainstorm.We are living in the golden age of vector worship. Every shiny new AI startup and “AI-enabled” product proudly declares they’ve jammed everything into a vector database and called it intelligent retrieval.