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Design Loops, Not Prompts

But don't let the model check itself The post Design Loops, Not Prompts appeared first on Towards Data Science .

Towards Data Science
Jul 24

Loop Engineering for RAG Generation: An LLM Cascade from a Cheap Local Model Up to a Hosted Flagship

Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #8quater] - Two angles on the cascade, cost and a validation loop, backed by a real sweep of twenty local models against a hosted flagship The post Loop Engineering for RAG Generation: An LLM Cascade from a Cheap Local Model Up to a Hosted Flagship appeared first on Towards Data Science .

By Kezhan Shi
Towards Data Science
Jul 29

Prompt Engineering Is Solved—Prompt Management Isn’t

Prompt engineering helps you write better prompts—but it doesn’t help you change them safely. This article explores a common production failure where a simple variable rename breaks every live call, and introduces a lightweight static analysis tool that treats prompts like contracts, catching breaking changes before they ship.

By Emmimal P Alexander
Towards Data Science
5d ago

My Model Was Cheating on Its Own Test

A preprocessing pipeline let my car price model peek at the test set before the exam, and the twelve points of R squared it cheated its way to The post My Model Was Cheating on Its Own Test appeared first on Towards Data Science .

By Abdullahi Dattijo