LLMs: Advances, Product Integration, Production Challenges, and Risk Mitigation
Context
You are interviewing for a Software Engineer role focused on machine learning. Assume you need to assess recent large language model (LLM) capabilities and propose how to integrate them into a large-scale product with web/mobile clients, an existing knowledge base (docs, tickets, FAQs), and APIs.
Tasks
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Latest Advancements: Summarize notable LLM advancements from the past 12–18 months and why they matter for production systems.
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Product Applications: Propose 2–3 high-impact ways to apply LLMs in our product. For each, outline key user value, a high-level architecture, and success metrics.
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Production Challenges: Identify the main challenges when deploying an LLM to production and how you would address each.
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Hallucinations and Bias: Explain concrete techniques to handle hallucinations and mitigate bias in LLM outputs.