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How to detect, contain, and learn from AI incidents using proven incident response principles.","date_modified":"2025-11-10T00:00:00Z","date_published":"2025-11-10T00:00:00Z","id":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2025-11-10-ai-incident-management/","title":"AI Incidents Don't Look Like Outages. That's the Problem.","url":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2025-11-10-ai-incident-management/"},{"content_text":"AI debt hides in prompts nobody owns, evals nobody runs, and data pipelines nobody watches. By the time you notice, every change feels dangerous.","date_modified":"2025-10-27T00:00:00Z","date_published":"2025-10-27T00:00:00Z","id":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2025-10-27-ai-technical-debt/","title":"AI Technical Debt Is Eating Your Team Alive (And You Can't Even See It)","url":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2025-10-27-ai-technical-debt/"},{"content_text":"Individual AI speedups are a distraction. The real gains come from treating AI as team infrastructure \u0026ndash; embedded in docs, decisions, and onboarding.","date_modified":"2025-10-13T00:00:00Z","date_published":"2025-10-13T00:00:00Z","id":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2025-10-13-ai-team-productivity/","title":"AI Doesn't Make Your Team Faster. Shared Infrastructure Does.","url":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2025-10-13-ai-team-productivity/"},{"content_text":"Most AI ROI calculations are fantasy. Measure honestly: one workflow, full costs, benefits tied to outcomes the business tracks, and a range, not one number.","date_modified":"2025-09-29T00:00:00Z","date_published":"2025-09-29T00:00:00Z","id":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2025-09-29-ai-roi-measurement/","title":"Measuring AI ROI Without Lying to Yourself","url":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2025-09-29-ai-roi-measurement/"},{"content_text":"Privacy in AI systems fails in the details: what gets logged, who can replay prompts, how long artifacts linger. 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The defenses are the ones we\u0026rsquo;ve always needed.","date_modified":"2025-04-28T00:00:00Z","date_published":"2025-04-28T00:00:00Z","id":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2025-04-28-ai-security-2025/","title":"AI Security: Same Principles, New Attack Surface","url":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2025-04-28-ai-security-2025/"},{"content_text":"Offline evals are necessary but not sufficient. Here\u0026rsquo;s how I test AI features in production with shadow mode, canaries, and rollback automation \u0026ndash; with Go code.","date_modified":"2025-04-14T00:00:00Z","date_published":"2025-04-14T00:00:00Z","id":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2025-04-14-ai-testing-production/","title":"Testing AI Where It Actually Runs","url":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2025-04-14-ai-testing-production/"},{"content_text":"Traditional monitoring will tell you your AI service is up. It won\u0026rsquo;t tell you it\u0026rsquo;s returning confident garbage. 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Here\u0026rsquo;s how I integrate them in Go services with routing, async patterns, and cost controls that actually work.","date_modified":"2025-01-20T00:00:00Z","date_published":"2025-01-20T00:00:00Z","id":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2025-01-20-reasoning-models-production/","title":"Reasoning Models in Production: A Practical Guide","url":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2025-01-20-reasoning-models-production/"},{"content_text":"The AI hype cycle is over. 2025 is about the teams who can make this stuff actually work in production \u0026ndash; repeatably, measurably, and without burning money.","date_modified":"2025-01-06T00:00:00Z","date_published":"2025-01-06T00:00:00Z","id":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2025-01-06-ai-trends-2025/","title":"AI in 2025: The Year Discipline Wins","url":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2025-01-06-ai-trends-2025/"},{"content_text":"The AI advantage in 2025 goes to teams that ship measurable workflows, not teams that chase capabilities. 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The same boring patterns \u0026ndash; gateways, caching, circuit breakers, budgets \u0026ndash; solve the same boring problems.","date_modified":"2024-12-09T00:00:00Z","date_published":"2024-12-09T00:00:00Z","id":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-12-09-ai-infrastructure-scale/","title":"Your AI Infrastructure Is Not Special","url":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-12-09-ai-infrastructure-scale/"},{"content_text":"Most AI team failures come from unclear ownership and weak evaluation, not missing talent. Structure and discipline beat hiring sprees.","date_modified":"2024-12-02T00:00:00Z","date_published":"2024-12-02T00:00:00Z","id":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-12-02-building-ai-teams/","title":"Your AI Team Problem Is Not Technical","url":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-12-02-building-ai-teams/"},{"content_text":"There\u0026rsquo;s no best model. There\u0026rsquo;s the model that fits your workload, latency budget, cost constraint, and ops tolerance. Here\u0026rsquo;s how to compare them.","date_modified":"2024-11-25T00:00:00Z","date_published":"2024-11-25T00:00:00Z","id":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-11-25-ai-model-comparison-2024/","title":"Picking an AI Model for Production (Late 2024)","url":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-11-25-ai-model-comparison-2024/"},{"content_text":"AI safety in production isn\u0026rsquo;t a research problem. It\u0026rsquo;s defense in depth, the same way cyber defense works \u0026ndash; layered controls, assumed breach, observable boundaries.","date_modified":"2024-11-11T00:00:00Z","date_published":"2024-11-11T00:00:00Z","id":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-11-11-ai-safety-production/","title":"AI Safety Is Just Production Engineering","url":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-11-11-ai-safety-production/"},{"content_text":"Single-prompt agents break on real tasks. Plan-execute-replan, orchestrated specialists, structured memory, and explicit recovery are what survive \u0026ndash; in Go.","date_modified":"2024-10-28T00:00:00Z","date_published":"2024-10-28T00:00:00Z","id":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-10-28-advanced-agent-patterns/","title":"Agent Patterns That Survive Production","url":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-10-28-advanced-agent-patterns/"},{"content_text":"Price-per-token is the least useful number on your AI bill. Real cost benchmarking starts with your workload, not a provider\u0026rsquo;s pricing page.","date_modified":"2024-10-14T00:00:00Z","date_published":"2024-10-14T00:00:00Z","id":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-10-14-ai-cost-benchmarking/","title":"AI Cost Benchmarking: What Your Bill Actually Tells You","url":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-10-14-ai-cost-benchmarking/"},{"content_text":"Most RAG failures are retrieval failures. Hybrid search, smarter chunking, query expansion, and reranking \u0026ndash; measured separately from generation.","date_modified":"2024-09-30T00:00:00Z","date_published":"2024-09-30T00:00:00Z","id":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-09-30-retrieval-strategies-rag/","title":"RAG Retrieval That Actually Works","url":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-09-30-retrieval-strategies-rag/"},{"content_text":"AI is a decent drafting assistant for technical docs. It\u0026rsquo;s a terrible replacement for ownership.","date_modified":"2024-09-16T00:00:00Z","date_published":"2024-09-16T00:00:00Z","id":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-09-16-technical-documentation-ai/","title":"Let AI Write Your First Draft, Not Your Docs","url":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-09-16-technical-documentation-ai/"},{"content_text":"I used LLMs to help migrate a 200K-line Go codebase. The mechanical parts went fast. Everything else was still hard.","date_modified":"2024-09-02T00:00:00Z","date_published":"2024-09-02T00:00:00Z","id":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-09-02-ai-code-migration/","title":"AI-Assisted Code Migration: What Actually Works","url":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-09-02-ai-code-migration/"},{"content_text":"LLM outputs are non-deterministic. That doesn\u0026rsquo;t mean you can\u0026rsquo;t test them rigorously. Here\u0026rsquo;s the layered testing approach I use in production.","date_modified":"2024-08-19T00:00:00Z","date_published":"2024-08-19T00:00:00Z","id":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-08-19-llm-testing-strategies/","title":"How I Actually Test LLM Features","url":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-08-19-llm-testing-strategies/"},{"content_text":"Everyone reaches for GPT-4 by default. Most production tasks don\u0026rsquo;t need it. Small models are faster, cheaper, and often better when the task is well-defined.","date_modified":"2024-08-05T00:00:00Z","date_published":"2024-08-05T00:00:00Z","id":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-08-05-small-models-big-impact/","title":"The Best Model Is the Smallest One That Works","url":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-08-05-small-models-big-impact/"},{"content_text":"Bigger context windows aren\u0026rsquo;t an excuse to stop thinking about what goes into them. Most teams are paying for irrelevant tokens and wondering why quality degrades.","date_modified":"2024-07-22T00:00:00Z","date_published":"2024-07-22T00:00:00Z","id":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-07-22-context-window-strategies/","title":"Stop Stuffing Your Context Window","url":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-07-22-context-window-strategies/"},{"content_text":"Function calling is how LLMs touch real systems. Treat tools like APIs, arguments like untrusted input, and permissions like the model is an intern with root access.","date_modified":"2024-07-08T00:00:00Z","date_published":"2024-07-08T00:00:00Z","id":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-07-08-function-calling-patterns/","title":"Function Calling Patterns That Survive Production","url":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-07-08-function-calling-patterns/"},{"content_text":"Claude 3.5 Sonnet changes model routing math for coding, cost, latency, and production AI workloads.","date_modified":"2024-06-24T00:00:00Z","date_published":"2024-06-24T00:00:00Z","id":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-06-24-claude-35-sonnet-analysis/","title":"Claude 3.5 Sonnet Analysis: Cost, Coding, and Model Routing","url":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-06-24-claude-35-sonnet-analysis/"},{"content_text":"Compliance doesn\u0026rsquo;t have to slow you down. But you have to build it into the system from day one, not bolt it on after the demo impresses the board.","date_modified":"2024-06-10T00:00:00Z","date_published":"2024-06-10T00:00:00Z","id":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-06-10-ai-compliance-enterprise/","title":"AI Compliance Without the Theater","url":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-06-10-ai-compliance-enterprise/"},{"content_text":"Most enterprise AI projects die between the demo and production. The blockers aren\u0026rsquo;t technical \u0026ndash; they\u0026rsquo;re organizational. Here\u0026rsquo;s what I keep seeing.","date_modified":"2024-06-03T00:00:00Z","date_published":"2024-06-03T00:00:00Z","id":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-06-03-enterprise-ai-adoption/","title":"Why Your Enterprise AI Pilot Is Stuck","url":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-06-03-enterprise-ai-adoption/"},{"content_text":"Voice AI is ready to ship. The hard parts are latency, interruptions, and knowing when voice is the wrong interface. Here\u0026rsquo;s how I approach it.","date_modified":"2024-05-27T00:00:00Z","date_published":"2024-05-27T00:00:00Z","id":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-05-27-building-voice-ai/","title":"Building Voice AI That People Actually Use","url":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-05-27-building-voice-ai/"},{"content_text":"OpenAI shipped a model that sees, hears, and talks back in real time. The demos look magical. The architecture implications are where it gets interesting.","date_modified":"2024-05-13T00:00:00Z","date_published":"2024-05-13T00:00:00Z","id":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-05-13-gpt4o-realtime-ai/","title":"GPT-4o Changed the Interface, Not the Hard Part","url":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-05-13-gpt4o-realtime-ai/"},{"content_text":"How to get reliable JSON from LLMs in Go with schemas, validation, repair loops, and typed contracts.","date_modified":"2024-04-29T00:00:00Z","date_published":"2024-04-29T00:00:00Z","id":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-04-29-structured-output-patterns/","title":"LLM Structured Output in Go: JSON Schema, Validation, Retries","url":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-04-29-structured-output-patterns/"},{"content_text":"The AI tooling landscape is exploding. Most of it adds complexity without removing real friction. Here is how I decide what earns a spot in the stack.","date_modified":"2024-04-15T00:00:00Z","date_published":"2024-04-15T00:00:00Z","id":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-04-15-ai-developer-tooling/","title":"Most AI Developer Tools Are Not Worth Adopting Yet","url":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-04-15-ai-developer-tooling/"},{"content_text":"AI agents that can take actions are fundamentally different from chatbots. The engineering bar must match the blast radius.","date_modified":"2024-04-01T00:00:00Z","date_published":"2024-04-01T00:00:00Z","id":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-04-01-agentic-workflows-production/","title":"Agentic Workflows: From Demo Magic to Production Reality","url":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-04-01-agentic-workflows-production/"},{"content_text":"Caching LLM responses is the highest-leverage optimization most teams skip. How I implement it in Go \u0026ndash; keys, invalidation, and safety patterns.","date_modified":"2024-03-25T00:00:00Z","date_published":"2024-03-25T00:00:00Z","id":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-03-25-prompt-caching-strategies/","title":"LLM Prompt Caching in Go: Cut Costs Without Breaking Things","url":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-03-25-prompt-caching-strategies/"},{"content_text":"Betting on a single model provider is like having a single database with no failover. Here is why multi-model is the only sane production strategy.","date_modified":"2024-03-18T00:00:00Z","date_published":"2024-03-18T00:00:00Z","id":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-03-18-multi-model-strategies/","title":"Why I Run Multiple Models in Production","url":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-03-18-multi-model-strategies/"},{"content_text":"Anthropic shipped three models instead of one. That is actually the most interesting part of the release.","date_modified":"2024-03-04T00:00:00Z","date_published":"2024-03-04T00:00:00Z","id":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-03-04-claude-3-first-look/","title":"Claude 3 First Impressions: Three Models, One Decision Framework","url":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-03-04-claude-3-first-look/"},{"content_text":"Your LLM feature looks great in demos and breaks in production. Here is how to build an evaluation loop that catches regressions before your users do.","date_modified":"2024-02-19T00:00:00Z","date_published":"2024-02-19T00:00:00Z","id":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-02-19-evaluating-llm-applications/","title":"LLM Evaluation: Stop Shipping on Vibes","url":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-02-19-evaluating-llm-applications/"},{"content_text":"AI-native apps are fundamentally different from a model bolted onto a CRUD app. How I structure them \u0026ndash; with code, layers, and hard-won opinions.","date_modified":"2024-02-05T00:00:00Z","date_published":"2024-02-05T00:00:00Z","id":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-02-05-ai-native-architecture/","title":"Architecting AI-Native Applications (Without the Delusion)","url":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-02-05-ai-native-architecture/"},{"content_text":"Local LLMs are finally good enough for development. Use them for iteration, keep the API bills for production.","date_modified":"2024-01-22T00:00:00Z","date_published":"2024-01-22T00:00:00Z","id":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-01-22-local-llms-development/","title":"Stop Paying OpenAI to Test Your Prompts","url":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-01-22-local-llms-development/"},{"content_text":"AI engineering is not ML research with a product hat. It is the discipline of making models behave in production \u0026ndash; and it demands its own skill set.","date_modified":"2024-01-08T00:00:00Z","date_published":"2024-01-08T00:00:00Z","id":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-01-08-ai-engineering-discipline/","title":"AI Engineering Is Its Own Discipline Now","url":"https://lawzava.com/blog/2024-01-08-ai-engineering-discipline/"}],"title":"Law Zava","version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1"}