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 …