AI Engineering

Definitions

1. The engineering discipline of building, integrating, testing, deploying, and operating AI-powered systems in real products. AI engineering spans prompts, retrieval, data, model orchestration, evaluation, guardrails, and conventional software practices.

   In plain English: The practical engineering work involved in building AI products.

   Example: "The company hired platform engineers into AI engineering because shipping a reliable assistant required much more than just selecting a model."

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• Ablation Study
• Adversarial Attack
• Adversarial Example
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• Coordinated AI
• Prompt System
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