Answered from AI Interview #8 - Why is the chatbot so slow? · Gaurav Sen · 2026-10-05
Gaurav Sen says uploads pass through parsing, chunking, conversion into vector embeddings and storage in the vector database. Parsing can be slow and also inaccurate, because the format of a user's document is not known in advance, and chunking is the other common slow step, especially when a semantic chunker is used.
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