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The 21-case test that decides whether a RAG chatbot ships

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Every retrieval-augmented chatbot demo looks the same: paste in a folder of PDFs, ask a question, get a plausible answer, applause. Then it meets real users, who ask real questions, and the plausible answers start being wrong in ways nobody planned for. In one line: A regulated financial client's d…

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  1. 2026-10-20 04:39 · DEV Community — AI
    The 21-case test that decides whether a RAG chatbot ships

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