Case study 02 — Draft
WeatherGPT
A draft case study for WeatherGPT. Add the real stack, the prompt strategy, and one outcome. Nothing below is a claim yet.
Illustrative mockup — replace with a real screenshot.
The short version
- What it is — add one sentence.
- What you built — add the model, the forecast source, and the flow.
- What was hard — add the grounding or latency problem.
Who it was for
Add the real user and the question they wanted answered. “Will it rain at 7 pm?” is a better starting point than “weather enthusiasts”.
The problem
Add the gap between a weather dashboard and a plain answer. Note the risk: a language model can write a confident sentence about weather it does not have.
How it works
Add the real flow: geocoding, forecast source, model, streaming, cache, and rate limit. Name the exact boundary where facts stop and prose begins.
The hard part
Add the grounding or evaluation problem. What did the model invent, how did you detect it, and what did you change? Link the prompt or the eval when it exists.
The outcome
Add one number you can defend: first-token time, cache hit rate, or eval pass rate. If there is no number, describe the guardrail instead.
What I would change
Add one honest thing: parse relative times on the server, cache data instead of prose, or put the eval suite in CI.
Draft case study. The structure is real; the details are placeholders. The visitor-weather demo in the mobile case study uses real browser data; this page does not yet have a live demo.
The process
Three moments from the build. Add real dates and commits when they exist; until then, this is the shape of the story.
The first version
Add what the first version did and how it failed. If it hallucinated, say so; that is the most useful part of the story.
Facts before prose
Add how the forecast reaches the model: structured context, a tool call, or a guardrail. Explain what the model is not allowed to do.
What broke
Add the failure that survived the first fix: stale data, time parsing, a cost spike, or an answer with no source.