Why most GenAI pilots crumble after launch Most GenAI pilots don't fail because the models are bad — they fail because the surrounding system wasn't built for production. In 2026 an "LLM call" is rarely a single model invocation. Real systems are compound: embedders, retrievers, vector stores, ...
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/nainikmehta/llmops-for-compound-ai-systems-observability-cost-d6b)