Worked Walkthrough: Run the Prompt-to-RAG-to-Tune Ladder
Apply a repeatable escalation ladder from prompt work to retrieval to fine-tuning.
Your team has a compliance assistant that is simultaneously too wordy, sometimes stale on policy, and inconsistent about whether it escalates uncertain cases. Escalate system weight one layer at a time: prompting, then retrieval, then fine-tuning for stable residual behavior. The trap is to solve every flaw with the heaviest tool in the stack. That makes root causes invisible and often leaves you paying to preserve problems that a lighter layer could have removed. 1. Run the prompt test Add explicit instructions, examples, and required answer sections. Many quality issues are still just underspecified prompts. 2. Run the freshness test…
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