Count before you fix
Count, instrument, narrow, and evaluate before rewriting an AI prompt: a practical discipline for fixing production failures without silent regressions.
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Production AI reliability
Architecture and operating disciplines for AI systems that need to stay useful, observable, and safe after the demo.
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Your AI assistant has too much autonomy, not too little intelligence
The routing, tool boundaries, and failure handling your AI assistant needs before it touches a real workflow — and the three predictions for what breaks next.
Stop fixing AI bugs by rewriting the prompt
The four layers your AI product needs when prompts stop holding the system together — and the failure mode that put a lawyer in front of a judge.
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