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Building AI systems

How AI products get made

The practical vocabulary teams use when they ship an AI feature, from deployment to cost.

6 terms

Frontend and backend
Level 1
The frontend is what the user sees; the backend is the part that runs on servers.
Deployment
Level 1
Making a new version of software live for real users.
Latency
Level 1
The delay between a request and its response.
Evaluation
Level 2
Systematically testing whether an AI system's output is actually good.
Guardrails
Level 2
Rules and checks that constrain what an AI system may say or do.
Cost per token
Level 2
What you pay for each chunk of text a model reads and writes.