Agent Gave Boss Fake Link: Dev Reflects on RAG Best Practices
gogeta7124 · reddit · 2026-07-31
A developer shared that their company website agent confidently handed the boss a non-existent signup link, creating an embarrassing first impression.
This perfectly illustrates the universal truth of "trash in, trash out" in AI. The developer concluded that when an agent acts dumb or hallucinates, don't rush to switch the underlying model. Instead, fix the data source first. Ensuring clean content and setting hard guardrails (like instructing it to only answer from known facts) can improve reliability rapidly.
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