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Retrieval & EmbeddingsHard· Debugging· Evaluation· Root Cause Analysis
How do you adjudicate a disagreement between engineers regarding why a specific document is not being retrieved?
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See plansDo not accept proposed fixes until the failure is localized. By pulling the document by ID and checking the retriever’s output, you can determine if the bug is a retrieval failure or a generation failure. If the document never appears in the top-k, the gap is in the indexing or query generation process. If it appears in the top-k but the generator ignores it, the problem is entirely downstream of retrieval, and neither engineer’s proposed fix is relevant.