I wanted to ask whether a failure mode taxonomy and debugging guide for RAG systems would be in scope as an additional resource in this AI infra landscape.
What WFGY Problem Map is
WFGY is an open source project that defines a 16 mode failure map (No.1 to No.16) for LLM plus RAG pipelines. The modes include:
- retrieval hallucination even when relevant evidence is present
- vector store ingestion and index fragmentation
- bootstrap ordering and infra race conditions between API gateway and vector DB
- secrets and config drift only visible on first production deploy
- and other quietly dangerous failure modes
Problem Map README:
https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/tree/main/ProblemMap#readme
For each mode, there is a description, typical symptoms and suggested minimal countermeasures.
Why it might help users of this landscape
This repo maps out the infrastructure that powers the generative AI ecosystem. For teams building LLM plus RAG stacks on top of that infra, a recurring challenge is understanding how the pieces can fail together.
A concrete failure mode map gives infra and platform teams:
- a vocabulary to describe RAG-related failures across services and components
- a checklist before declaring an AI service “ready for production”
- a way to connect incidents back to specific failure modes and mitigation patterns
Possible entry
If you think this fits the scope, an entry under a Debugging, reliability, or hardening section could be:
WFGY 16 Problem Map, RAG failure mode taxonomy
Open source map of 16 real world failure modes (No.1 to No.16) for LLM plus RAG systems, with debugging checklists and mitigation ideas.
https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/tree/main/ProblemMap#readme
If you prefer to keep the landscape focused on more traditional infra components only, feel free to ignore this suggestion. Thanks again for maintaining this overview of the ecosystem.
I wanted to ask whether a failure mode taxonomy and debugging guide for RAG systems would be in scope as an additional resource in this AI infra landscape.
What WFGY Problem Map is
WFGY is an open source project that defines a 16 mode failure map (No.1 to No.16) for LLM plus RAG pipelines. The modes include:
Problem Map README:
https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/tree/main/ProblemMap#readme
For each mode, there is a description, typical symptoms and suggested minimal countermeasures.
Why it might help users of this landscape
This repo maps out the infrastructure that powers the generative AI ecosystem. For teams building LLM plus RAG stacks on top of that infra, a recurring challenge is understanding how the pieces can fail together.
A concrete failure mode map gives infra and platform teams:
Possible entry
If you think this fits the scope, an entry under a Debugging, reliability, or hardening section could be:
WFGY 16 Problem Map, RAG failure mode taxonomy
Open source map of 16 real world failure modes (No.1 to No.16) for LLM plus RAG systems, with debugging checklists and mitigation ideas.
https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/tree/main/ProblemMap#readme
If you prefer to keep the landscape focused on more traditional infra components only, feel free to ignore this suggestion. Thanks again for maintaining this overview of the ecosystem.