Alex Bowcut
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)
Is RAG Dead? Lessons from Building AI for Tax Law with Alex Bowcut
- Published
- June 9, 2026
- Duration
- 51:32
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Jun 10, 2026
Discusses rag.
Summary
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 applicat…
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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 tax compliance—an environment where getting the answer right isn’t enough. Every conclusion must be back
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- rag