Chris Knows Production AI

Chris Knows Production AI

AI didn't make engineering principles less important. It made the ones we took for granted matter more. Production AI is the architecture, tradeoffs, and judgment that separate demos from systems that survive production. Written for engineers, and the leaders responsible for them.

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I Mapped My AI Software Lifecycle. Code Wasn't the Bottleneck.

Aug 7, 2026

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I Mapped My AI Software Lifecycle. Code Wasn't the Bottleneck.

AI made code generation fast. It did nothing for the two places the time actually goes, and one of them was quietly lying to me.