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AI Development133 articles
AI Development
Implementation notes for building AI tools around real business data, handoffs, review queues, and safeguards.
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Implementation notes for reviewable AI systems.
This lane is for teams turning AI from a demo into a system that touches real business data. The throughline is implementation discipline: handoffs, receipts, evals, observability, review lanes, and the boundary between proposed work and approved action.
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Agent receipts: what to log before AI touches customer workIt shows what a reviewer needs before approving AI-assisted work: source, rule, approval, owner, and rollback context.
Define the evidence, approval, receipt, and rollback path around one AI system boundary.
Map one review laneDesign the review lane before adding tools
A coding agent, support agent, or data assistant needs a lane before it needs more autonomy: owner, evidence, allowed changes, receipt, and rollback.
Log the work like a receipt
Capture what the system read, what it proposed, which rule it used, who approved it, and how the team can reconstruct the decision later.
Test the workflow, not just the answer
Before launch, check whether evals and dashboards measure the handoff: missing evidence, risky action, reviewer correction, and quality-lane drift.
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