Quick Reference: The Retrieval Objection Battlecard
Recall how to defend retrieval when freshness and traceability matter.
A stakeholder wants to skip retrieval for an assistant whose answers must reflect current private policies and procedures. “RAG sounds messy. Let’s fine-tune the model on the docs so it just knows the answers.” “Fine-tuning can help a stable behavior pattern, but it is a weak way to keep changing documents current. Retrieval lets the assistant inspect the latest source at answer time, cite it, and stay updateable without retraining every time the policy moves.” The response reframes the issue from elegance to failure mode. If the business risk is stale or untraceable answers, retrieval is the control that directly…
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