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Measure whether the AI is good and trace where it fails.
Golden Answer
A golden answer is a trusted reference answer or expected result for an eval case.
Think of it like
Think of Golden Answer like testing and telemetry for any production service: quality must be measured, not guessed.
Real life
Teams use Golden Answer to decide whether a new release is safer, faster or more useful.
SRE lens
For a known incident, the gold root cause can be database pool exhaustion.
Remember thisA golden answer is a trusted reference answer or expected result for an eval case.