Go RAG and Long Context Signals for a 200 Page Handbook
The page fires at 02:13: a fintech listings question was answered, but the response has no usable citation to the 200-page operating handbook. The on-call engineer can see a successful model request and a plausible paragraph. That is not enough. A fluent answer without evidence is a grounding failure, not a healthy request. TL;DR: start with a long-context prompt when query volume is low and operational simplicity matters more than per-question efficiency. Move to RAG as traffic grows, provided…