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You have probably seen this play out. A team adopts a “best practice” because a respected company blogged about it, a conference talk made it sound inevitable, or a framework
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If you have experimented with large language models long enough, you have probably had the same moment many teams do. The demo works. The model responds well. Latency is acceptable.