Ian Massingham

In this talk, you will learn about some of the common challenges that you might encounter while developing meaningful applications with large language models. Using non-deterministic systems as the basis for important applications is certainly an 'interesting' new frontier for software development, but hope is not lost. In this session, we will explore some of the well known (and less well known) issues in building applications on the APIs provided by LLM providers, and on 'open' LLMs, such as Mistral, Llama, or DeepSeek. We will also (of course) dive into some of the approaches that you can take to address these challenges, and mitigate some of the inherent behaviors that are present within LLMs, enabling you to build more reliable and robust systems on top of LLMs, unlocking the potential of this new development paradigm.