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You have no labels on production traffic. How do you monitor RAG retrieval quality before users complain?

Golden sets catch what you anticipated. The harder problem is the live traffic you never labeled. The answer that scores layers cheap proxy signals against a small anchored golden set and knows what each can and cannot tell you.

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Golden sets catch what you anticipated. The harder problem is the live traffic you never labeled. The answer that scores layers cheap proxy signals against a small anchored golden set and knows what each can and cannot tell you.

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