13 minutesRAG vs Fine-Tuning vs Prompt Engineering: Optimizing AI Models
Choose between prompt engineering, RAG, fine-tuning or a combination based on the actual failure mode.
Prompt Engineering. A focused walkthrough of Microsoft's GraphRAG — entity extraction, community summaries, query-focused summarization — set up on a local machine with cost notes. Watch it for the graph-RAG section of the article specifically; the cost discussion is the part most write-ups skip.
Setup commands and costs can drift, but the architecture is useful. Recalculate current token costs and validate whether graph construction is justified before adopting this pattern.
Understand the Microsoft-style GraphRAG flow: entity extraction, communities, summaries and query-focused synthesis.
Know why plain vector search can miss relationship-heavy questions.
Last reviewed: May 18, 2026
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