Deep Dive: LLMs are an I/O Layer
Deep Dive: LLMs are an I/O Layer LLMs are extraordinary at moving between representations of text — parsing ambiguous natural language into structured data, generating fluent prose from structured data, summarizing, translating, reformatting. They are not calculators. They are not classifiers. They are not databases. The architecture of any LLM-based system should reflect this, and most production systems that work reliably have converged on the same pattern — sometimes by design, usually by pain. ...