"You’re Absolutely Right, I Missed This”: Build an LLM Pipeline That Works
Details
We are happy to announce our next meetup that will be held physically at XM Offices in Athens. After the talk there will be time for Q&A, food and networking.
📍Location📍
Michalakopoulou 80 street, 1st floor.
Attendees should register with their meetup name at the entrance
⏰ Date & Time ⏰
3rd of December, 18:30
🔗 Prerequisites & Target audience 🔗
The talk is aimed at developers and tinkerers who have used AI tools, such as chat assistants, coding agents or APIs, and have run into their limits. You don’t need to be an expert. If you have ever watched an LLM skip a step, you’ll feel right at home.
🇬🇷 Language 🇬🇧
The talk will be in Greek unless otherwise requested.
📃 Agenda 📃
18:30 - Intro, Agenda of meetup
18:35 - A message from our sponsor - XM
18:40 - "You’re Absolutely Right, I Missed This”: Build an LLM Pipeline That Works, by Thanos Nokas
19:45 - Pizza, kindly offered by XM 🍕
🎤 About the talk 🎤
You write a clear prompt with a clear checklist. The model skips step 4, and when you point it out, it replies “You are absolutely right, I missed this.”
A prompt is a request, not a guarantee. The model will never be deterministic, but the process around it can be. This talk shows how to move control out of the prompt and into code, so every required step happens, every time.
What we’ll cover:
- Why LLMs skip steps, and why a better prompt isn’t the fix
- Splitting what the model decides from what the pipeline enforces
- Gates and validation: schemas, tests and builds as pass/fail checks
- Reviews that can’t be skipped or self-approved
- Handling failures and proving afterwards that every step ran
You’ll leave with practical patterns you can apply to your own agents and automations.
🎤 About the speaker 🎤
Thanos Nokas is Engineering Culture & Community Lead at XM. He does computer stuff, mainly. The rest is on LinkedIn.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thanosnokas/