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problem 189 tok
FinFam Pulse week-archive URLs (/pulse/week/{monday}) 404 for every week after 2026-06-22. Root cause: a hardcoded freshness wall PULSE_LATEST = '2026-06-22' (and PULSE_EPOCH = '2026-06-15' ) duplicated across three frontend files — fruit/src/lib/components/pulse/PulseFeed.svelte (lines 11-12),…
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lesson 330 tok
Audit the searchable corpus with category-representative queries before tuning an LLM content-linker
When a search-then-LLM-decide linker mostly falls through to its capped fallback, probe the corpus with one representative query per input category before touching the matcher — coverage gaps masquerade as matching bugs, and the search path's visibility predicate (not the UI) defines the effective corpus.
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problem 213 tok
LLM grounded search extracts secondary figure from article OG description instead of primary headline figure. Observed in a Gemini grounded search pipeline extracting news stories: CNBC article headlined 'Americans say they need $1.2 million to retire comfortably' (URL slug:…
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problem 183 tok
Pulse macro attribution allows multiple stories to claim the same grounding chunk URL via keyword fallback. Observed 2026-07-13 am prod: story[0] 'Oil Prices Spike as U.S.-Iran Military Tensions Escalate' correctly claimed the economictimes.indiatimes.com oil article via quote_anchor…
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problem 176 tok
Pulse grounded search fabricates outlet name 'Market Report' for The Economic Times (economictimes.indiatimes.com) in weekly vibe. Observed 2026-07-13 prod: weekly vibe paragraph cited ' Market Report ' for an oil price article. The domain is 'The Economic Times' (India's major financial daily).…
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problem 237 tok
Pulse grounded search fabricates legislative characterizations that contradict the cited source article. Observed 2026-07-11 pm prod: the grounded text (Gemini synthesis) stated '7 years: The time limit within which these institutional investors must sell their existing single-family homes' and 'By…
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problem 145 tok +2
Pulse grounded search assigns fabricated outlet names to stories when the source domain is a local TV affiliate. Observed 2026-07-10 am staging: WSLS (a Virginia NBC affiliate at wsls.com) was labeled 'U.S. Energy Markets' in macro_events. The pipeline's source_name extraction produced a…
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problem 220 tok
Pulse pair selection (select_story_pair / PairSelectionSignature) treats YouTube shorts as viable macro lead candidates. Observed 2026-07-10 am staging: pair selection chose a Ramit Sethi YouTube short ('High earners, empty accounts: where $150k goes') as lead_macro over the IRS COVID-era refund…
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problem 134 tok
Google Grounded Search + DuckDuckGo fallback pipeline fails to find primary-source URLs for real stories when grounding chunks lack the exact figure. Observed with AAA gas price data ($3.846/gal, July 9 2026): Gemini's grounded search returned 16 chunks but none contained the precise $3.846 figure,…
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problem 130 tok +1
FinFam Pulse companion views published as verbatim clones: the pulse digest remixes an existing calculator (deep copy) and enqueues a viewgen EDIT draft to customize it with story specifics, then a finalize step quality-checks and publishes unlisted. In prod the published companions are…
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lesson 239 tok
When validating LLM-generated news digests that cite specific economic figures, always check the generation timestamp (from debug manifest or logs) against the official data release schedule. If the digest was generated BEFORE the data release, any specific figure cited is necessarily from forecast…
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problem 158 tok
Pulse AM vibe grounded search runs before BLS Employment Situation release (8:30 AM ET), causing the LLM to fabricate specific figures from pre-release forecast articles. Jul 2 2026: vibe cited 'wage growth at 4.4%' (from stale/forecast data), actual BLS June 2026 release showed 3.5%. The grounded…
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problem 138 tok
Pulse vibe writer switches between headline PCE (4.1%) and core PCE (3.4%) across consecutive editions without clarifying which metric is being cited. Jun 28 PM edition leads with 'PCE Inflation Surges to 3-Year High of 4.1%' (headline PCE). Jun 29 PM edition references 'the Fed might hike rates…
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problem 106 tok +1
Pulse production editions consistently have empty finfam_links (no calculator view attachments). Checked Jun 28 PM and Jun 29 PM editions on ff-api.finfam.app — both have finfam_links: []. The weekly vibe also has no view attachments. This means readers see the vibe text but no interactive…
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problem 195 tok +5
Pulse grounded search assigns story headlines to wrong URL chunks. The Vertex AI grounded search returns N chunks with resolved URLs. The system then generates M story headlines, each with a matched_chunk index. But the matched_chunk indices are assigned sequentially (0, 1, 2) rather than…
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problem 92 tok
Pulse source stop-word filter too aggressive: 'subscribe now', 'hiring', 'b2b' in GENERAL_STOP_WORDS block legitimate newsletter and labor-market content. Apricitas (high-quality econ newsletter) had 20/20 posts filtered because Substack injects 'subscribe now' CTAs into post bodies. 'hiring'…
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