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7 posts tagged “Production AI.”
If You Can Build It in a Weekend, So Can Your Competitor
Wrapping a model isn't a moat. Where AI actually creates defensibility for a startup — and where it just commoditizes you alongside everyone else.
Read →Can You Trust an AI Agent With Your Customer Data?
The data-privacy and security questions every founder should ask before letting an agent touch customers, payments, or PII — in plain language, not a compliance lecture.
Read →Guardrails: The Boring Work That Keeps AI Out of the Headlines
Every AI failure that makes the news shares a missing guardrail. They're the unglamorous constraints that turn a confident-but-risky agent into one you can actually trust.
Read →Why Your AI Demo Won't Survive Real Users
The demo was flawless. Then real users touched it. The gap between a demo that wows and a system that survives is the unglamorous work that decides whether AI ships.
Read →Evals for People Who Aren't ML Engineers
Evals sound like data-science jargon. They're just a way to test whether your AI is any good, on purpose, on a cadence. Here's how to build your first one with a spreadsheet.
Read →The 70/30 Method: Building With AI Agents Without Betting the Company on Them
Why I let AI agents handle about 70% of the work and keep 30% for senior judgment — and how that ratio keeps AI projects out of the ditch.
Read →How I Build AI Agents That Actually Ship
Most AI agents die in the demo. Here's the process I use to get them into production — and the unglamorous parts that decide whether they survive contact with real users.
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