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Exploring Next — Ep 368 w/ Justy & Cody — The RAG era is ending for agentic AI — a new compilation-stage knowledge layer is what comes next

Pinecone just announced Nexus, a 'knowledge engine' that shifts reasoning from inference time to a compilation stage — meaning agents get pre-built, task-specific knowledge artifacts instead of rediscovering context from scratch every session. Justy and Cody dig into why RAG was never really built for agents, what the architecture actually does, and whether the 98% token reduction claim holds water.

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