Understanding Large Language Models Series

Open-Domain Tasks Are the Real AI Test: A Practical Guide from Benchmarks to Production

by Nat Currier 23 min read
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A practical guide to designing open-domain AI systems with one concrete port-compliance case, failure containment patterns, and a production-grade evaluation workflow.

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Understanding Large Language Models

Part 32 of 42
Previous LLMs in 2026: From Bigger Models to Grounded, Multimodal, Production Systems
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