Every team ships English first, then finds that the retriever, the prompt, the latency budget and the cost model each degrade differently in the next five languages. The applied playbook looks nothing like the model-level answer, and the thing that sinks launches is the eval set nobody built.
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Every team ships English first, then finds that the retriever, the prompt, the latency budget and the cost model each degrade differently in the next five languages. The applied playbook looks nothing like the model-level answer, and the thing that sinks launches is the eval set nobody built.
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