// Hacker Noon · 8 June 2026

Your RAG System Might Be Confidently Wrong

Most RAG confidence scores only describe the model output. They do not tell you whether the retrieved index was fresh, whether the source changed after indexing, or whether old embeddings are still being used. This article proposes a small retrieval-time trust layer that checks index freshness befor...

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