When the Correct Answer Is Nothing, What Does Your Pipeline Return?
The reliability mechanisms we add to LLM pipelines are often the ones that make them confidently wrong. The post When the Correct Answer Is Nothing, What Does Your Pipeline Return?
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When the Correct Answer Is Nothing, What Does Your Pipeline Return? | Towards Data Science The reliability mechanisms we add to LLM pipelines are often the ones that make them confidently wrong. Benjamin Nweke described a failure that took him three weeks to notice .
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