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Evaluating Open vs Closed Models for a Product Feature (EXPLAINED)

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Score quality evals, time-to-market, data privacy, total cost at projected scale, team skills, safety burden, and vendor lock-in — document decision ADR with revisit triggers at scale milestones.

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Framework to decide open-weight Llama vs closed API for a new AI feature.

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