Simple model of driver onboarding with LLMs.

model (1), systems-thinking (7), eng-strategy-book (7)

This is a stub/draft document.

In How should you adopt LLMs?, we explore how a theoretical ride sharing company, Theoretical Ride Sharing, should adopt LLMs. Part of that strategy’s diagnosis depends on finding an impactful product opportunity for building expertise using LLMs within the company.

This is a short modeling exercise..

See the full notebook in lethain:eng-strategy-models..

This is a draft modeling exercise as I explore approaches to writing a book about engineering strategy. I’ve summarized notes in Engineering strategy notes.

For a more comprehensive modeling exercises, take a look at Writing a reliability strategy and Modeling a hiring funnel.

Analysis

If you eliminate the manual eligibility check, you eliminate an entire step in the onboarding funnel, allowing the model to always be one step ahead.

Line chart showing a faster and a slower onboarding strategy examples.

Modeling

Initial

[CityPop] > Applied @ 100
Applied > Eligible @ 0.25
Eligible > Background @ 1.0
Background > ReadyToOnboard @ 0.75
ReadyToOnboard > Onboarded @ 0.9

Combined steps

[CityPop] > Applied @ 100
Applied > EligibleAndBackground @ 0.25
EligibleAndBackground > ReadyToOnboard @ 0.75
ReadyToOnboard > Onboarded @ 0.9