Errors in LLM pipelines fall into two categories: retrieval-layer drift, where the wrong source or wrong chunk is pulled, and presentation-layer drift, where the right source is retrieved but the output misrepresents it (paraphrase, fabrication, mis-citation). This split matters because the fixes are different — retrieval drift needs better search/grounding, while presentation drift needs output-side verification like grep re-checks.
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