September 2024
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12 min read
Zero-shot CoT fails on complex tasks. Few-shot helps but costs tokens. Structured CoT with self-consistency sampling delivers 94% recall on legal contract review — here's the exact pattern we use in production.
Chain-of-Thought
Production
Evaluation
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August 2024
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10 min read
LLM-as-judge is noisy. Human eval doesn't scale. We combine automated metrics, synthetic test generation, and active learning loops to achieve 91% accuracy on support ticket routing with 80% less manual review.
Evaluation
LLM-as-Judge
Active Learning
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August 2024
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8 min read
Indirect prompt injection via RAG retrieval is the real threat. We cover instruction hierarchy, delimiter strategies, input sanitization, and audit logging patterns that pass compliance review.
Security
Prompt Injection
Compliance
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July 2024
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11 min read
Token reduction isn't about shorter prompts — it's about semantic caching, prompt compression, and intelligent model routing. Real numbers from migrating 2M monthly requests.
Cost Optimization
Prompt Caching
Model Routing
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July 2024
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9 min read
Shallow personas break under multi-turn conversation. We show deep persona construction with consistency checks, memory injection, and multi-persona orchestration for specialized domains.
Personas
Advanced Patterns
Multi-turn
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June 2024
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13 min read
LLMs hallucinate JSON keys. We cover constrained decoding, parser-aware prompting, fallback strategies, and production templates for code review, research synthesis, and data extraction.
Structured Output
JSON Schema
Parsing
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