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LLM prompt testing: Catching regressions before they break billing

This article discusses the importance of writing regression tests for LLM extraction prompts before making modifications. It highlights how seemingly small changes to a prompt, like adding a clarifying sentence, can inadvertently degrade the accuracy of other extracted fields, leading to issues like billing complaints. The author proposes creating a 'golden set' of documents, carefully curated and labeled by hand, to serve as a fixed benchmark for testing prompt accuracy. This rigorous testing process aims to catch regressions at the per-field level, ensuring overall system reliability. AI

IMPACT Ensures accuracy and reliability of LLM-based data extraction, preventing downstream issues like billing errors.

RANK_REASON The article describes a method for testing LLM extraction prompts, which is a tool or technique for developers.

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Multigrid ·

    Writing Regression Tests for an Extraction Prompt Before You Touch It

    <p>Somebody is about to add one sentence to an extraction prompt to fix one field. The sentence will fix that field. Whether it breaks two others is not knowable without a test that was written before the edit, and aggregate accuracy is not that test.</p> <h2> What you are actual…