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LLM logging strategies balance debuggability with privacy concerns

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Logging prompts and responses from Large Language Models (LLMs) presents a trade-off between debuggability and data privacy. While not logging anything offers simplicity and privacy, it hinders bug reproduction and improvement. Logging only metadata provides insights into performance metrics like cost and latency but offers no context for output errors. The author advocates for a strategy of full text logging with redaction, short retention periods, and restricted access, which allows for debugging and eval set creation while mitigating privacy risks. AI

IMPACT Establishes best practices for LLM application development, impacting how developers manage data privacy and model debugging.

RANK_REASON The item discusses best practices and opinions on LLM logging, rather than announcing a new product or research.

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LLM logging strategies balance debuggability with privacy concerns

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · M.T.Ramkrushna ·

    Do you log your LLM prompts and responses? Four answers, and the one I'd pick

    <p>Friday AI Question. This week's question is one every team shipping an LLM feature has to answer, usually after the first weird bug report:</p> <p><strong>Do you log your LLM prompts and responses?</strong></p> <ul> <li> <strong>A. No.</strong> We don't store prompts or output…

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