What actually breaks when LLM features meet real users, from production experience

Early-Sir-932 · reddit · 2026-09-30

A developer shares hard-won lessons on how LLM features fail in production — rarely the model itself, but the layers around it: no eval set (changes are vibes without a scored set), prompt-level guardrails that models talk their way out of (deterministic code enforcement is a must), runaway costs from non-idempotent retries and over-routing to big models, garbage inputs (use docling/llamaparse for documents), and silent failures you only learn about from user tickets without per-step tracing.

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