AnalysisAI ModelsSeptember 17, 2026

Essay: LLM classification is really feature engineering

Argues LLM-as-classifier prompts lack calibration and threshold control, since verdicts come back as hard labels with no principled way to trade precision against recall. Structured data pasted into prompts may go unused, and the model's baked-in priors may not match the target population.

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