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Does RAG Actually Help AI Coding Tools?
I benchmarked Claude Code and GitHub Copilot on the same model with and without RAG-powered semantic search across 60 queries. Both tools search equally well — but RAG cuts token consumption by 23% and helps on the hardest queries.
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