A maintenance assistant cites the right equipment family but the wrong manual revision. Fix the retrieval contract.
The citation is real and semantically relevant, yet the advice belongs to different equipment. Resolve applicability before ranking and preserve the version decision through generation and evaluation.
Updated Sep 2026 · Grounded in real Forward Deployed Engineer interview loops and written to a senior-engineer editorial bar.
The citation is real and semantically relevant, yet the advice belongs to different equipment. Resolve applicability before ranking and preserve the version decision through generation and evaluation.
Lead with where the obvious approach breaks, because that is the judgment they are screening for — most candidates jump straight to the happy path and lose the room.
Then walk the failure back through the pipeline in order, naming the one metric the customer's exec sponsor actually cares about before you propose the fix.
