PRODUCTION SCENARIO
A legal-review team asks for an API assistant that summarizes contracts. It will run during live negotiations, may receive privileged documents, and must answer before the next agenda item.
What should the developer do first?
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Answer: Write down the latency ceiling, data-handling rules, and required failure behavior
Functional and infrastructure requirements come from the business requirements and the solution architecture, and they are the bar every later decision is measured against. Benchmarking three models first has no bar to score against: without a latency ceiling and a quality threshold, passing is undefined. Drafting prompts fixes an output format before anyone has agreed what must come back under privilege. Building the index commits infrastructure before the data-handling rules that constrain it exist.