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A rebuilt index and a wrong answer means the staleness is somewhere else: a cache, a routing pointer, a chunk that survived deletion, or a document that never reached the pipeline at all.

One request touches an embedding call, a vector search, a rerank, a prompt build and a generation, and a single duration for the whole thing tells you nothing about any of them.

The database part is easy. The operational problems are reindexing when the embedding model changes, recall degrading silently as filters get stricter, and memory growing faster than anyone forecast.