LLM drift baseline: a minimal template
Drift is hard to prove without a baseline. The simplest baseline is a repeatable prompt set and stored outputs with timestamps.
This template is designed to be small enough to run weekly.
Baseline fields
Why this works
- Even if you cannot fully attribute the cause, you can detect changes early and prevent contradictions from spreading across channels.
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