LLM Limits Solved: Complete Guide to AI Workarounds 2025
By Dr. Hernani Costa — Sep 28, 2025
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The Limits of LLMs and How We Work Around Them
Large Language Models are revolutionary, but they are not magic. To deploy them effectively, you must have a clear-eyed understanding of their inherent limitations. Acknowledging these boundaries is the first step to overcoming them.
The first major hurdle is the context window. An LLM's memory is short. It can only process a limited amount of information at once. Once you exceed this limit in a lengthy document or conversation, the model forgets what came before, leading to inconsistent or incomplete outputs.
The second is the problem of hallucinations. Because LLMs are probabilistic word predictors, rather than fact-checkers, they can generate information that sounds convincing but is entirely false. Relying on their output without verification is a significant business risk.
Third, their knowledge is static. An LLM is frozen in time, aware only of the data it was trained on. It lacks access to real-time information, breaking news, and your company's latest internal data.
So, how do the pros overcome these challenges? We don't accept the limitations; we architect around them. We give the models tools.
To solve the knowledge problem, we connect LLMs to live data sources via APIs. To combat hallucinations, we employ techniques such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), which forces the model to base its answers on a specific, verified set of documents. To break free from the context window, we build systems that use external databases for long-term memory.
This is the hidden skill of AI implementation. It's not just about prompting; it's about building a robust system around the model. Through AI automation consulting and workflow automation design, organizations transform a powerful but flawed technology into a reliable, enterprise-grade asset. An AI readiness assessment for EU SMEs reveals that successful implementations combine RAG systems with API integration and memory architecture—the core pillars of operational AI implementation.
Written by Dr Hernani Costa and originally published at First AI Movers. Subscribe to the First AI Movers Newsletter for daily, no‑fluff AI business insights, practical and compliant AI playbooks for EU SME leaders. First AI Movers is part of Core Ventures.
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