What is grounding?

Grounding is tying an answer to a source it can point at, instead of one it produced from memory.

Navid Moazzezby Navid MoazzezUpdated Sept. 12, 20261 min read
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An ungrounded answer might be right. A grounded one can be checked.

For anything a customer reads, this is the difference between confident and defensible.