Production AI

5 pieces on Production AI, including 1 step-by-step guide.

Guides

Shan • 2026-06-07

Zero-Shot ClassificationLocal LLMOllamaNLPProduction AI

Build a Local LLM Zero-Shot Classifier You Can Actually Deploy

Learn how to run zero-shot text classification on a local model with Ollama, enforce strict JSON outputs, and add confidence-aware routing for production triage.

News & Analysis

news

Shan • 2026-08-31

Agentic AIMLOpsObservabilityLLMProduction AI

Five MLOps Assumptions That Silently Pass Failed Agent Runs

MLOps monitoring reports healthy on runs that failed. Here are the five structural assumptions that break when a model starts calling tools.

Pipeline Architecture, Not Better Models, Drives 2026's Biggest AI Gains

articles

Shan • 2026-08-22

multi-agent systemsAI pipelinesproduction AIorchestrationcost optimisation

Pipeline Architecture, Not Better Models, Drives 2026's Biggest AI Gains

Four independent deployments—AWS, Cloudflare, Fanatics, and async Bedrock—achieved step-change results by decomposing monolithic agents, not upgrading models.

news

Shan • 2026-08-20

LLM EvaluationAgentic WorkflowsLLMOpsPrompt EngineeringProduction AI

LLM Judge Approved Its Own Errors: Three Biases Explained

A production SQL pipeline approved wrong queries for weeks. The judge and generator shared the same model — and that structural flaw caused the incident.

Articles

Shan • 2026-06-10

Prompt EngineeringDSPyLLM EvaluationProduction AILLMOps

Stop Hand-Tuning Prompts: A Production Workflow for Automated LLM Optimization

Move beyond trial-and-error prompting with a measurable workflow for evaluating and optimizing LLM prompts in production systems.