The Testing Grounds
Public benchmarks are clues, not verdicts. These deterministic labs teach what to test on your own workload.
Retrieval vs Giant Prompt
Compare sending an entire handbook with retrieving three relevant passages.
More context is not the same as more relevant evidence.Context Budget
Allocate a fixed window among instructions, evidence, history, and output.
Context is a system budget with competing uses.Sampling and Variation
Replay curated outputs under low and high variation settings.
Variability can help exploration and hurt repeatability.Structured Output Reliability
Validate the same extraction against syntax and field correctness.
A valid JSON shape can still contain wrong facts.