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What is AI product development?
Short answer
AI product development is the practice of building product features whose behaviour depends on a machine-learning model, usually a language model. It differs from ordinary product work in three ways: output is probabilistic, quality must be measured with evaluations, and launch plans need guardrails for wrong answers.
Last verified24 Sep 2026
The detail
Traditional features either work or have a bug. AI features work most of the time, so teams need to decide in advance how often is often enough, and what happens when the feature is wrong.
That changes the process: the evaluation set is written before the feature, launches are staged, and monitoring watches quality rather than only uptime.