LLM reliability #5-6: context quality plus guardrails and fallbacks
goyalshaliniuk · x · 2026-10-10
Parts 5-6 of goyalshaliniuk's LLM reliability series:
5. Control context quality — retrieve relevant info, dedupe, prioritize authoritative sources, keep instructions clear, limit irrelevant context. Better context beats bigger context.
6. Add guardrails & fallbacks — prepare for timeouts, rate limits, malformed outputs, unsafe responses, and failed retrieval with bounded retries, timeouts, fallbacks, and human review. Design for failure.
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