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
- Highlights from my appearance on the Data Renegades podcast with CL Kao and Dori Wilson - 26th November 2025
- Claude Opus 4.5, and why evaluating new LLMs is increasingly difficult - 24th November 2025
- sqlite-utils 4.0a1 has several (minor) backwards incompatible changes - 24th November 2025