# We've all done RAG, now what? Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/we-ve-all-done-rag-now-what Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/we-ve-all-done-rag-now-what.md Podcast: [Practical AI](https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai) Published: 2025-09-29T20:46:04+00:00 Episode link: https://share.transistor.fm/s/e13d399b Audio file: https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/media.transistor.fm/e13d399b/bf9fec0b.mp3 Processing state: failed JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/practical-ai/episodes/we-ve-all-done-rag-now-what Duration seconds: 2615 ## Resource Longtime friend of the show Rajiv Shah returns to unpack lessons from a year of building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines and reasoning models integrations. We dive into why so many AI pilots stumble, why evaluation and error analysis remain essential data science skills, and why not every enterprise challenge calls for a large language model. Featuring: Rajiv Shah – LinkedIn Daniel Whitenack – Website , GitHub , X Upcoming Events: Join us at the Midwest AI Summit on November 13 in Indianapolis to hear world-class speakers share how they’ve scaled AI solutions. Don’t miss the AI Engineering Lounge , where you can sit down with experts for hands-on guidance. Reserve your spot today! Register for upcoming webinars here ! ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/practical-ai/episodes/we-ve-all-done-rag-now-what/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/practical-ai/we-ve-all-done-rag-now-what.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.