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Production AI.

Production is where AI systems earn their keep or quietly fail. Evals, observability, model lifecycles, handover, and the operational discipline that keeps a system running after launch.

Pillar

What "production AI" actually means

Everyone claims production AI. The term has a checkable definition: six properties that separate a system real users depend on from a demo with traffic.

Definitions

04 Sept 2026 · 6 min

T-49

Why software ships in weeks now

The quarters were mostly translation and waiting. What actually compressed, what did not, and why discovery matters more at high speed, not less.

Analysis

02 Oct 2026 · 5 min

T-41

Golden datasets and golden conversations

The regression suite of AI behavior: what golden sets are, how the conversational variant catches what scores miss, and how ours saved a migration.

Playbooks

18 Sept 2026 · 5 min

T-29

Models retire. Plan for it.

Every LLM system inherits its provider’s deprecation calendar. The lifecycle, the migration playbook, and the incident that taught us to diary the dates.

Playbooks

11 Sept 2026 · 5 min

T-13

Vibe coding vs production grade: where the line actually is

AI-assisted development is why software ships in weeks now. It is also generating insecure code at scale. Both are true; the difference is the wrapper.

Analysis

28 Aug 2026 · 6 min

T-04

The ownership handover: what you should hold when the vendor leaves

Code alone is not ownership. The six-part handover standard for AI systems: code, prompts, infrastructure, evals, credentials, runbooks, and how to demand it.

Playbooks

21 Aug 2026 · 5 min

T-03

LLM evals, explained for the people paying for the system

Evals are how an AI system proves it works. What they are in plain language, why vendors skip them, and exactly what to demand in your handover.

Definitions

21 Aug 2026 · 6 min

T-02

Our sales funnel is an AI agent. In June, it silently died.

A field note on running production AI on ourselves: the model retirement that killed our intake chat, and the checklist we now apply to every system we ship.

Field notes

12 Aug 2026 · 6 min

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03 · Start

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