Escaping POC Purgatory: Evaluation-Driven Development for AI Systems
O'Reilly on Data
MARCH 25, 2025
Lets be real: building LLM applications today feels like purgatory. Someone hacks together a quick demo with ChatGPT and LlamaIndex. Leadership gets excited. We can answer any question about our docs! But then reality hits. The system is inconsistent, slow, hallucinatingand that amazing demo starts collecting digital dust. We call this POC Purgatorythat frustrating limbo where you’ve built something cool but can’t quite turn it into something real.
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