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Why your "90% accurate" LLM is failing in production
The gap between offline eval and live performance is almost always a coverage problem. A practical playbook.
Jun 2, 2026
Writing for ML engineers, applied scientists, and the leaders deciding where to bet on AI next.
The gap between offline eval and live performance is almost always a coverage problem. A practical playbook.
Frontier model quality has converged. The remaining alpha is in the tool surface you expose to the agent.
A decision tree from 40+ deployments. The defaults most teams pick are wrong about a third of the time.
Five techniques: cascading, distillation, structured outputs, semantic caching, and ruthless prompt compression.
42 attack templates that catch real-world misuse before your users do.
Most of it does not. Here is what does, and how to map your existing GRC stack to it.