Teardowns

Failure analyses with the numbers attached

Every teardown here is produced by the same open-source harness we point at customer systems. No screenshots of dashboards, no anecdotes — metric definitions, raw output, and a fix whose effect is measured rather than asserted.

01 · RETRIEVAL

The 12-point fix: what one retrieval miss actually costs

74.5 → 86.4 overall, hallucination rate 19% → 3%, with no re-indexing and no embedding vendor. Full before/after table and the method.

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02 · MEASUREMENT

Nine answers, three fabrications

Auditing an assistant from a trace export alone: no VPN, no credentials. An invented SLA, a refund policy that doesn't exist, and a GDPR commitment nobody approved.

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03 · METHOD

A refusal is not a hallucination

The scoring bug that rates a fabrication as twice as trustworthy as an honest "I don't know" — plus two more measurement bugs from an audit of our own harness.

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