- In short
- Symptom timing is the fastest way to tell the four root causes apart. A wrong first response, with no prior good output in the session, points to under-specification. Quality that starts fine and degrades as the conversation grows points to context overload. A specific, repeatable error type, such as subtly wrong numbers or shallow analysis, points to a wrong feature or model tier. Output that used to work and now does not, with an unchanged prompt, points to stale configuration. The when of the failure narrows the cause before you touch anything.
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