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Software engineering has TDD; AI engineering needs EDD, or eval-driven development. Build an eval set first to define "good," run it on every change, and block regressions. This article covers the workflow, its nondeterministic and probabilistic differences from TDD, implementation, and how EDD turns intuition-led AI tuning into an engineering feedback loop.
AI helps you write code, but it can also introduce vulnerabilities, hallucinated dependencies, and non-compliant licenses. This article covers four risk categories (AI-generated vulnerabilities, hallucinated dependencies, licenses, model supply chain) and defenses: SCA, license review, AI code review, sandboxing, and dependency governance.
A single Agent working doesn't mean it can serve multiple users and tasks. This article clarifies the concurrency model (per-request Agent vs Agent pool), resource management (model API concurrency limits / tool concurrency), scheduling (priority / queue / rate limiting), and multi-user state isolation, pushing the Agent from a "single-threaded demo" to a "traffic-bearing service".
AI applications have more failure points than traditional software: model APIs, vector databases, tools, and internal services can all fail. This article covers degradation, circuit breaking, retries, fallbacks, multi-model and multi-provider recovery, backups for vector stores, memory, and sessions, monitoring, and chaos drills to keep AI apps resilient.
LLM calls are expensive and slow, making caching a powerful cost and latency lever. This article explains three cache layers: prompt caching for prefixes, semantic caching for similar queries, and exact-key result caching, including use cases, hit conditions, consistency pitfalls, and a combined strategy.
AI features carry higher launch risk (unstable quality, runaway cost, safety failures), so staged rollout is almost mandatory. Learn AI feature flags that support rollout by prompt version, model, and parameters, paired with eval, A/B, and rollout strategies (1%→10%→100%, by cohort) so you can ship confidently and roll back fast.
Your AI product must block illegal and abusive content without killing legitimate content. This article walks through moderation system design: dimensions (input/output/UGC), multi-layer defense (rules/classifiers/LLM review), false-positive balance, appeals and human review, and OpenAI Moderation vs. self-built classifiers.
AI coding tools reshape more than individual productivity—they reshape team collaboration. This article covers embracing AI: how code review changes, knowledge sharing and best practices, skill evolution (from writing to reading/judging/decomposing), adoption strategy, and norms to avoid black-boxing and over-reliance.
Whether search works comes down to relevance: do results match what the user searched for? Covers signals (semantic, keyword, authority, freshness, personalization), weighted fusion, offline evaluation (labels + metrics), click feedback, and avoiding results that look relevant but are useless.
Prompt Caching is one of the most effective ways to cut LLM costs, yet many implementations suffer from low hit rates, invalidation, and higher bills. This article explains prefix caching, byte-identical hit requirements, prompt design, TTLs, invalidation, and hit-rate monitoring so caching actually saves money.
Changing embedding models, revising chunking, and rebuilding indexes can cause downtime or degrade retrieval in production RAG. This article covers blue-green indexes, dual writes, shadow traffic, rebuild-and-switch workflows, and incremental updates that make these changes invisible to users.
Agents are non-deterministic, multi-step, and call tools — manual testing can't keep up. This article explains how to automate agent evaluation: build task sets + rubrics, batch-score with LLM-as-judge, do trace-driven regression, wire eval into CI, and mine bad cases from production traces for auto-intake — so every agent change gets an objective score.