Designing an LLM Feature Flag and Rollout Strategy (EXPLAINED)
Scenario interview on safe GenAI rollouts — flags, shadow eval, canaries, and kill switches.
TL;DR — Quick Answer
Treat model/prompt changes like risky deploys: feature flags with cohort targeting, shadow traffic scoring, canary at 1–10%, automated quality/latency/cost gates, and a one-click kill switch that falls back to the last known-good config.
The Interview Question
Your team wants to ship a new prompt + model combo to 10% of users. Design a feature-flag and rollout strategy covering shadow traffic, kill switches, and rollback.
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