Cutting RAG Costs: Do We Really Need to Send the Whole PDF to the LLM?

Posted on Sat 29 August 2026 in AI

The Problem Nobody Talks About Loudly

Retrieval-Augmented Generation — RAG — has quietly become the default way to make LLMs actually useful with real-world documents. You index a PDF, embed the chunks, retrieve the relevant ones at query time, and pass them to the model. It works. People ship it.

But there's …

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