AI Engineering Is Not Just Prompts and LLMs
Why "choose an LLM, write a prompt, ship it" works for demos—but what breaks when real users arrive. Production architecture, distributed systems, and SaaS engineering lessons.
RAG · LLM Evaluation · Applied AI
Production AI systems, not demos: hybrid retrieval and reranking, quantitative evaluation frameworks, and the deterministic validation that keeps AI-generated output trustworthy.
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Why "choose an LLM, write a prompt, ship it" works for demos—but what breaks when real users arrive. Production architecture, distributed systems, and SaaS engineering lessons.
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