You can still leverage the llm ability to understand language to do better than search. You can use it to refine or expand your search terms, you can ask the l

You can still leverage the llm ability to understand language to do better than search. You can use it to refine or expand your search terms, you can ask the llm to ask you questions about what book you'd like next and convert your answers into genre/theme/setting/mood to feed into the next step of the pipeline, you can tell the agent to narrow search results by asking you partitioning questions from the list of book the search returned instead of just being a dry ranking The is so much rag can do if you use the llm part properly. If the rag pipeline goes question > embedding > search > summarization then yeah you're getting an expensive slow parrot no better than just searching, but that is because it's using the baseline rag that uninspired consultant describe in blogs in a scramble to position themselves as "expert" in the new market.