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How do you debug wrong RAG answers?

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  • I inspect parsing, document version and permissions, chunk boundaries, candidate recall, ranking, supplied context, and answer support in that order.
  • I score retrieval and generation separately, then improve the failing stage rather than automatically using a larger model.
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