Exploring Next
Exploring Next — Ep 364 w/ Justy & Cody — The scaffolding era is over. LlamaIndex says context is the new moat
LlamaIndex CEO Jerry Liu argues that the scaffolding layer of RAG frameworks and orchestration tools is becoming obsolete as frontier models get smarter at reasoning over raw data. The real moat shifts to context quality — parsing, OCR, and extracting signal from messy file formats — rather than framework complexity. Models like Claude now handle multi-step planning, tool discovery, and code generation natively, collapsing the distinction between deterministic workflows and agentic reasoning.