Instruction: Describe your first optimization move when RAG quality features add too much latency.
Context: Tests how the candidate diagnoses the problem, chooses the safest next step, and reasons through recovery. Describe your first optimization move when RAG quality features add too much latency.
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I would break the latency increase into stages before I changed architecture. Saying reranking and citations made it slower is too broad to act on. I want to know how much time is going to candidate retrieval, reranker compute, citation assembly, prompt growth, and model generation.
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