What is a practical LLM use case, and how would you evaluate it?

Instruction: Explain your approach, give a practical example, and describe its limits.

Context: Describe a focused workflow with measurable benefits and explicit failure cases.

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Example Answer

One practical use case is helping support staff find an answer in a large policy library. I would retrieve the documents the staff member is allowed to access, then ask the model to draft a short answer with references to the relevant passages. The staff member can inspect the evidence before using the draft.

I would evaluate correct policy selection, unsupported statements, response time, and the amount of review needed. The system should show when evidence is missing or conflicting. I would compare it with the existing search workflow before claiming that it saves time; a polished demo does not establish that the benefit holds on real cases.

Concrete example

Include two policies with different effective dates and a question that neither document answers. Measure whether the system selects the current source and recognizes the missing evidence.

Follow-up to practice

When would better search alone be enough to solve this problem?

References

Retrieval-Augmented Generation paper

Anthropic: evaluating agents

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