// Hacker Noon · 25 May 2026

This 2-Step LLM Gate Pattern Makes RAG Systems Faster and Cheaper

This article argues that most Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipelines waste latency and compute by blindly triggering semantic search for every query, regardless of intent. It introduces a lightweight “2-Step Gate Pattern” in which a small routing agent first determines whether retrieval is necessa...

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