https://vbhargava.org/tags/inference-cost/Recent content in Inference-Cost on Vishal BhargavaHugoenWed, 12 Aug 2026 20:00:00 +0400https://vbhargava.org/writing/hybrid-search-ablation/Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:00:00 +0400https://vbhargava.org/writing/hybrid-search-ablation/<p>I added hybrid search and a cross-encoder reranker to my RAG service, measured it, and wrote up four findings. Then I ran the one comparison I&rsquo;d been putting off, and three of the four didn&rsquo;t survive.</p>