tradeoffs

FDE interview questions tagged tradeoffs, across every topic.

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🤝 The Customer-Facing Craft

Explaining Trade-offs to Non-EngineersAn exec does not care whether you chose RAG or fine-tuning; they care what it costs, when it ships, and what it might get wrong. Translating a technical trade-off means converting accuracy, cost, and latency into the decision the business is actually making, framing each option as a choice with a consequence in their terms, and answering the question they will all eventually ask: why does the AI give a different answer every time, and why is that not a bug.

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