A team has a well defined problem, which is predicting from thirty structured fields whether a machine part will fail within ninety days. They have eight years of labelled maintenance records. A stakeholder suggests using a generative model because it is the more modern technology. What is the strongest response?

• AAdvise a classical supervised model, which on structured data with labels will be cheaper, faster, more accurate and explainable.
• BAgree, since a foundation model will generalise better than a model trained on one dataset.
• CAgree, but only if the records are converted into text first.
• DAdvise Retrieval Augmented Generation over the maintenance records.