Why Our LLM-Powered Data Analytics Pipeline in R Broke Down at Scale
Dev.to AI
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Generative AI
Data Science
You know that moment when a slick proof-of-concept runs beautifully on your laptop, then utterly falls apart in production? That was us, thinking we were clever by wiring a large language model (LLM) into our R analytics pipeline - until the day our jobs started timing out, memory usage spiked, and our dashboards choked on error logs. If you’re eyeing LLMs to supercharge your R-based data workflows, our story might spare you from a few all-nighters. Why Even Bolt an LLM to R Analytics? We had a classic R pipeline: ingest, clean, analyze, visualize.