Treating LLMs as Unreliable Functions for Better Engineering
Improve your software development process by treating LLMs as unreliable functions.
Most developers start by crafting a long prompt, hoping for a valid JSON response. However, this approach can lead to a 20% failure rate in production, resulting in runtime errors and extensive debugging. This article discusses how to treat LLMs not as magic boxes but as software components. By implementing a validation layer and constraining output, developers can create more reliable systems.