AI and LLM Troubleshooting
Understand why AI-enabled systems fail differently and how to troubleshoot prompts, retrieval, tools, quality, latency, and safety.
AI support work still follows core troubleshooting discipline, but the system layers and quality signals are broader and less deterministic.
This chapter gives learners an operational model for AI and LLM troubleshooting. It covers prompts, retrieval, model inference, tool calling, safety, UI behavior, traces, evaluations, and post-change verification so AI incidents become diagnosable rather than mysterious.
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