Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world today and list out ways to explore these trends. This week we take a look at the effect of AI-related over-saturation and show you four ways to work around it.
Integrating AI, including large language models (LLMs), into your applications enables you to build powerful tools for data analysis, intelligent search, and text and image generation. There are a number of tools you can use to leverage AI and scale it according to your business needs, with specialized technologies such as vector databases, development platforms, and discrete GPUs being necessary to run many models. As a result, optimizing your system for AI often leads to upgrading your entire stack.
Business-critical infrastructure and services generate massive volumes of observability data from many disparate sources. It can be challenging to synthesize all this data to gain actionable insights for detecting and remediating issues—particularly in the heat of incident response.
Large Language Models (LLMs) can give notoriously inconsistent responses when asked the same question multiple times. For example, if you ask for help writing an Elasticsearch query, sometimes the generated query may be wrapped by an API call, even though we didn’t ask for it. This sometimes subtle, other times dramatic variability adds complexity when integrating generative AI into analyst workflows that expect specifically-formatted responses, like queries.
The limitations of the NLP tech stack gave birth to the modern LLM tech stack. As businesses evolve as connected, interactive, and data-intensive, business products are powered by a new layer of this modern technology.
