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Users ask vague, underspecified questions your RAG can't answer well. How do you handle query understanding and clarification?

Real users type 'what about the new policy?' with no context. Retrieving on those four words returns noise. Here is how strong systems disambiguate before they ever hit the retriever.

Updated Aug 2026 · Grounded in real Applied AI Engineer interview loops and written to a senior-engineer editorial bar.

Real users type 'what about the new policy?' with no context. Retrieving on those four words returns noise. Here is how strong systems disambiguate before they ever hit the retriever.

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