Last year, I faced a critical decision: fine-tune our LLM or implement RAG? We chose fine-tuning. It was expensive, time-consuming, and didn’t solve our core problem. After building 20+ LLM applications, I’ve learned when to use each approach. Here’s the comprehensive decision framework that will save you months of work. Figure 1: Fine-Tuning vs RAG […]
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