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# [Why Traditional RAG Fails at Multi-Hop Reasoning (And My Journey Building a GraphRAG Fix)](https://shalem-raju.hashnode.dev/why-traditional-rag-fails-at-multi-hop-reasoning-and-my-journey-building-a-graphrag-fix?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

I recently set out with a specific goal: I wanted to build an AI agent that could truly understand a massive, undocumented codebase. If you’ve ever tried to feed a codebase into a standard Retrieval-A

Mar 22 · 18 min read · shalem-raju.hashnode.dev  
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