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AI development best practices: timeouts, rate limits, and robust evaluation

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Developers are advised to treat Large Language Models (LLMs) as a dependency that may fail, implementing strict timeouts and avoiding retries for rate limits, instead opting for rescheduling. Best practices suggest using LLMs as the final stage in a pipeline rather than the first, and providing them with tools that interact with services directly, rather than embedding booking rules. Additionally, robust evaluation frameworks are needed to distinguish genuine regressions from noise, by measuring a per-case noise floor and quarantining unstable cases. AI

IMPACT These insights offer practical guidance for developers building with AI, focusing on reliability, efficiency, and accurate evaluation.

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  1. Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

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  5. Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

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  7. Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

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