Agents need vector search more than RAG ever did

What's the role of vector databases in the agentic AI world? That's a question that organizations have been coming to terms with in recent months. The narrative had real momentum. As large language models scaled to million-token context windows, a credible argument circulated among enterprise architects: purpose-built vector search was a stopgap, not infrastructure. Agentic memory would absorb the retrieval problem.…