Journal

Journal

Notes on shipping, product engineering and models. Written when there is something to say, not on a schedule.

Shipping to production is not giving a demo

2 min readA demo runs on the machine of the person showing it. Production runs on a Sunday at three in the morning, without them.
  • production
  • method

No Estimates: what I answer when asked how long

2 min readAn estimate commits nobody. A shippable slice commits the person shipping it.
  • method
  • delivery

A model in production costs, fails and retries

3 min readIn a notebook, the model call is free and always succeeds. In production, it is an external dependency like any other.
  • AI
  • production
  • architecture
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