Title: Discussion 1 — Where MLOps Ends and LLMOps Begins
Course: AIINFRA 301: Production RAG & LLMOps — Observability and Evaluation > Section: Week 01 — Introduction to Production RAG Architecture and the LLMOps Lifecycle

💬 Discussion 1 — Where MLOps Ends and LLMOps Begins (20 pts)

Where does the line fall between "MLOps" and "LLMOps" — and why does RAG force a new unit of operations (the pipeline, not just the model) into that picture? In your initial post (150+ words), address:

- One thing MLOps and LLMOps share, and one thing that's genuinely new in LLMOps (use the five pillars table from the lecture if it helps).
- Why, specifically, a RAG system can be broken by something other than the model itself — give a concrete example (real or hypothetical) of a RAG failure that isn't the LLM's fault.
- How the RAGOps idea of "the pipeline as the unit of operations" changes what you'd monitor day-to-day if you were running a RAG system in production.

Then respond to at least two classmates — push on a specific claim they made, or add an example from your own experience that either supports or complicates their point.