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Ship Your First AI Feature

An end-to-end walkthrough from idea to shipped AI feature (scoping, prompt, evals, guardrails, and launch) without the hype.

The short version

Your first AI feature doesn't fail in the model. It fails in the un-scoped edges, the prompt that drifts, and the lack of any way to tell if it got worse. The path that works: scope it narrow enough to actually finish; write the prompt as a spec, not a wish; build a tiny eval *before* you tune anything; add guardrails for the wrong-answer case; then ship behind a flag and watch. The trap to avoid: polishing the happy path while ignoring what happens when the model is unsure or wrong: that's the experience users remember. The full guide walks the whole sequence with a concrete example, including a starter eval harness, the guardrail patterns, and a pre-launch checklist.

Ship Your First AI Feature · SDEN