Start local experiments with a bounded job

Treat a compact model as a candidate for a bounded job. An original evaluation example is labeling short support requests, with a separate unknown category. Include examples that resemble your real traffic, not only easy demonstrations.

A demo does not establish production reliability

Do not equate a successful demo with production readiness. Check the model card’s limitations and measure where the system fails before letting it act on important records.

THE TAKEAWAY

What to remember

Measure errors before integration.

Sources & further reading

  1. Hugging Face: SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct model card ↗
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