Where should grounding stop and synthesis begin in a RAG system?

Instruction: Explain how you balance evidence-backed quoting with useful synthesis.

Context: Checks whether the candidate can explain the core concept clearly and connect it to real production decisions. Explain how you balance evidence-backed quoting with useful synthesis.

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The way I'd think about it is this: Grounding should cover factual claims, quoted rules, and source-specific details. Synthesis should organize, compare, summarize, or connect those supported facts into something useful for the user. The line is crossed when synthesis starts introducing details that are not actually backed by the retrieved...

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