Pruning RAG context down to what the answer actually needs

AI & Machine Learning, Software Development(kapa.ai)view on HackerNews
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Author: emil_sorensen

Date: 7/6/2026

Article Summary:
The article describes how the company Kapa built a small LLM to prune 68% of the context from their retrieval API, keeping 96% of recall, and reducing the cost of a query by a third.