You built a system to surface information so a person could decide. Somewhere along the way, it started deciding for them. The output stopped saying "here's what the documents show" and started saying
A user types a question into your RAG system. Before anything is retrieved, a decision gets made: what string do we actually search with? In a lot of systems, nobody made that decision on purpose. The
Your retriever returned five documents. They're all about the right topic. Your similarity scores look healthy. And the answer your system produced is still wrong. This is the failure that survives ev
