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How to Know If Your RAG System Actually Works
A developer learns that manually testing a RAG chatbot with a handful of questions is insufficient. The article explains the need for a golden dataset and systematic offline evaluation to catch retrieval failures. It contrasts ad-hoc testing with proper evaluation pipelines that measure answer accuracy.
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The piece is a practical primer for developers building RAG apps, but it glosses over the complexity of creating and maintaining high-quality golden datasets at scale.
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