Walk me through how you take an AI feature from an idea to production.
The ordering is the answer, and one move separates the people who have shipped from the people who have prototyped: where evaluation sits in the sequence. Most candidates put it in the wrong place and lose the question in the first sentence.
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The ordering is the answer, and one move separates the people who have shipped from the people who have prototyped: where evaluation sits in the sequence. Most candidates put it in the wrong place and lose the question in the first sentence.
Lead with where the obvious approach breaks, because that is the judgment they are screening for — most candidates jump straight to the happy path and lose the room.
Then walk the failure back through the pipeline in order, naming the one metric the customer's exec sponsor actually cares about before you propose the fix.
