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Escaping POC Purgatory: Evaluation-Driven Development for AI Systems

O'Reilly on Data

Most teams approach this like traditional software development but quickly discover it’s a fundamentally different beast. Check out the graph belowsee how excitement for traditional software builds steadily while GenAI starts with a flashy demo and then hits a wall of challenges? Whats worse: Inputs are rarely exactly the same.

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Practical Skills for The AI Product Manager

O'Reilly on Data

This role includes everything a traditional PM does, but also requires an operational understanding of machine learning software development, along with a realistic view of its capabilities and limitations. Experimentation: It’s just not possible to create a product by building, evaluating, and deploying a single model.

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9 IT resolutions for 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

Balancing the rollout with proper training, adoption, and careful measurement of costs and benefits is essential, particularly while securing company assets in tandem, says Ted Kenney, CIO of tech company Access. Our success will be measured by user adoption, a reduction in manual tasks, and an increase in sales and customer satisfaction.

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From project to product: Architecting the future of enterprise technology

CIO Business Intelligence

Understanding and tracking the right software delivery metrics is essential to inform strategic decisions that drive continuous improvement. Wikipedia defines a software architect as a software expert who makes high-level design choices and dictates technical standards, including software coding standards, tools, and platforms.

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MLOps and DevOps: Why Data Makes It Different

O'Reilly on Data

This is both frustrating for companies that would prefer making ML an ordinary, fuss-free value-generating function like software engineering, as well as exciting for vendors who see the opportunity to create buzz around a new category of enterprise software. All ML projects are software projects.

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What you need to know about product management for AI

O'Reilly on Data

If you’re already a software product manager (PM), you have a head start on becoming a PM for artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML). Why AI software development is different. This shift requires a fundamental change in your software engineering practice. It’s hard to predict how long an AI project will take.

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The early returns on gen AI for software development

CIO Business Intelligence

Generative AI is already having an impact on multiple areas of IT, most notably in software development. Still, gen AI for software development is in the nascent stages, so technology leaders and software teams can expect to encounter bumps in the road.

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