Building LLM applications for production. Chip Huyen provides a useful, in-depth review of the challenges involved in taking an app built on top of a LLM from prototype to production, including issues such as prompt ambiguity and unpredictability, cost and latency concerns, challenges in testing and updating to new models. She also lists some promising use-cases she’s seeing for categories of application built on these tools.
Recent articles
- The Summer of Johann: prompt injections as far as the eye can see - 15th August 2025
- Open weight LLMs exhibit inconsistent performance across providers - 15th August 2025
- LLM 0.27, the annotated release notes: GPT-5 and improved tool calling - 11th August 2025