{"product_id":"reliable-by-design-engineering-ai-systems-that-hold-9798195717490","title":"Reliable by Design: Engineering AI Systems That Hold","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Howard Riker\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Software Development \u0026amp; Engineering - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSoftware engineers have been shipping AI features for years. Too many of them are held together by prompt strings. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe problem is not the models. The models are extraordinary. The problem is the layer between the model and production: the code that calls it, validates its output, handles its failures, controls its cost, and keeps it from doing something catastrophic on a Saturday night. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThat layer is where this book lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReliable by Design is a production engineering curriculum for software engineers who are done with demos. It covers the full stack of concerns that appear the moment a model hits production: type-safe output handling, retrieval architecture, eval pipelines, agent control flow, security, observability, and cost governance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe central argument is simple: a model is a probabilistic kernel. Your software system must be the deterministic shell around it. That shell is where reliability lives, and building it well is an engineering problem, not a research problem. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is not a book about prompting. It is not a book about which model to use. It is a book about the craft of building AI systems that survive contact with real users, real budgets, and real incidents.","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47882755375255,"sku":"9798195717490","price":3772.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798195717490.webp?v=1781096827","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/reliable-by-design-engineering-ai-systems-that-hold-9798195717490","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}