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Your saturation curve reaches its last new code at trace 28 of 30. What is the honest conclusion?

The set has not saturated, because a tail of two traces is not evidence of anything, Saturation is a long stretch of reading with nothing new. Two traces after a step is a curve that stopped, not one that flattened. It makes no claim in either direction, which is why the honest report states the tail length alongside the category count.

A colleague labels every failure as either 'retrieval bad' or 'generation bad'. Their curve flattens after three traces. What has gone wrong?

The categories are too coarse, so everything fits in one and the flat curve means nothing, A flat curve is only evidence if the categories are fine enough to be actionable. The test is whether a category tells you what to fix. 'Answer useless' does. 'Generation bad' does not, and will swallow every failure you ever see.

Why does the lesson insist you read traces in arrival or random order?

Because any sort biases which failures you meet first, so the curve measures your sort rather than the system, If you read the short answers first, or the low-confidence ones, you front-load one kind of failure and the curve flattens early for a reason that has nothing to do with the taxonomy being complete. Once you have started, you also do not reorder.

In the lab, 'multiple issues mixed' and 'mixed issues' both appear as separate codes. What effect does that have on the saturation curve?

It pushes the curve up with a category that is not genuinely new, delaying apparent saturation, Two labels for one idea count as two distinct codes, so the line steps up for something that is not a new kind of failure. Merging near-duplicates is the axial coding step, and it belongs before you plot this curve.

Your taxonomy has four categories and you build a dashboard panel for each. A fifth failure kind, never seen during coding, starts happening in production. What do your metrics show?

Nothing moves, because no metric was built to watch for it, A category you never named does not appear as a gap or a zero. It appears as nothing. That is why the taxonomy is a ceiling on everything built above it, and why the length of the quiet tail matters more than the number of categories you found.

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