feature flags

AI ships behavior, not just code, and behavior is what you need to be able to switch off. The cheapest safety control you will ever build is a toggle that takes effect in seconds, and most teams discover theirs is broken during the incident.

Most candidates answer this with a speech about tradeoffs. The ones who get hired describe a mechanism: the teams that ship fastest in AI are not the ones with fewer guardrails, they are the ones whose guardrails make a mistake cheap.