The Counterintuitive Move: Why Killing RAG, MCP, and Agentic Loops Led to a Better AI Product

We Killed RAG, MCP, and Agentic Loops. Here's What Happened.

TLDR: The ZTRON team built a vertical AI agent for financial advisors and found that their initial complex architecture, using trendy technologies like multi-index RAG and MCP, created a slow and unstable application. They achieved stability, performance, and scalability by simplifying their stack, replacing agentic RAG with Context-Aware Generation (CAG) for many tasks, and using durable workflows for background processing.

We Killed RAG, MCP, and Agentic Loops. Here's What Happened.