When is fine-tuning worth it vs stronger RAG + prompts?
We have domain PDFs and a decent retrieval stack. Leadership keeps asking for fine-tuning. What signals actually justify the cost and ops burden?
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How do you eval RAG in production without a huge golden set?
We only have ~30 labeled queries. Curious what lightweight eval loops others run weekly before expanding coverage.