https://avanest.com/insights Writing on building AI features that hold up in production. en https://avanest.com/insights/designing-for-model-failure https://avanest.com/insights/designing-for-model-failure Every LLM feature fails sometimes. The difference between a product people trust and one they abandon is entirely in what happens next. Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Product design https://avanest.com/insights/evaluating-llm-features https://avanest.com/insights/evaluating-llm-features Most teams building LLM features have no way to tell whether a change made things better or worse. Here is how to build the evaluation set that fixes that, and why it has to come first. Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Evaluation https://avanest.com/insights/rag-before-fine-tuning https://avanest.com/insights/rag-before-fine-tuning Fine-tuning teaches a model how to behave. Retrieval tells it what is true. Confusing the two is the most expensive mistake in AI project scoping. Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Architecture