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Practical thinking on AI workflows in production — what breaks, how to catch it, and what the fix looks like. No hype. No vendor comparisons.

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How to Monitor LLM Calls in Production: A Complete Setup Guide

Standard infrastructure monitoring tells you the service is up. It doesn't tell you whether the model is producing correct outputs, whether latency is acceptable at p95, or whether costs are tracking. Here's the complete setup: what to instrument, what metrics to track, and which tools to use.

June 15, 2025·6 min read
Business

The Real Cost of Running Unmonitored AI in Production

The team ships the AI feature. It works in staging. Production looks clean. But the outputs have been wrong at 12% since launch. Costs are running 3x the estimate. Nobody knows yet. This is the unmonitored AI problem — and this post quantifies what it actually costs.

June 10, 2025·5 min read
Technical

Why Your AI Eval Suite Isn't Enough (And What's Missing)

Most eval suites have happy-path bias, don't block deployment, lack regression testing, and go stale. An eval suite with these gaps can report 94% accuracy while missing a 15% failure rate on real production inputs. Here are the six gaps we see most often — and what to add.

June 5, 2025·6 min read
Technical

Production RAG: What Nobody Tells You After 6 Months

The RAG tutorials get you to a demo in an afternoon. They don't cover what happens six months into production: index staleness, retrieval quality decay, RAG-specific hallucination modes, cost at scale, and the chunking strategy that made sense at launch but doesn't fit real usage. Here's what we've learned.

May 28, 2025·7 min read

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