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open_in_newThe taxonomy of LLM failures. Hallucination (model generates plausible but factually incorrect information — the most discussed failure mode; sub-types: factual fabrication, citation hallucination as...
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open_in_newConduct a failure mode analysis for an LLM feature. Given a product spec, enumerate: what can go wrong at each step, what's the probability (rare/occasional/frequent), what's the severity...
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open_in_new"Walk me through how you'd analyze failure modes for a new LLM application." Start with a failure mode enumeration: for each component (prompt, retrieval, generation, output parsing, delivery), list...