Insights topic
Applied AI
Getting AI past the demonstration: grounding, evaluation, cost control, and knowing which problems are not worth automating.
What this topic covers
- Retrieval that respects the source system’s permissions
- Evaluation sets that run in continuous integration
- Structured output, guardrails and designed refusal
- Cost and latency per transaction, measured rather than estimated
Articles
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Your RAG system is a data leak waiting to happen
Most retrieval-augmented generation systems enforce permissions at indexing time, or not at all. Both are wrong, and the failure is invisible until it is severe.
NELLA Labs Engineering · 8 min read
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