Walk an Escaped AI Defect Back to Root Cause
Use root cause analysis to convert an escaped AI defect into a better regression test and release signal.
Escape review A production refund answer hallucinated a policy. The dashboard says refund evals were green at release time. If the team only patches the prompt, the same class of escape can return through data, oracle, or retrieval. Root cause analysis Ask why the test system missed it RCA moves from bad output to missed evidence. In AI testing, the root may sit in the case, context, oracle, harness, model, or gate. Patch Change the prompt and move on The escape becomes an improvement to the test system. Root cause is not the bad AI answer. Root cause is the…
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