Analysis of 1,200+ production LLM deployments reveals that context engineering, architectural guardrails, and traditional software engineering skills—not frontier models or prompt tricks—separate teams shipping reliable AI systems from those stuck in demo purgatory.
Software engineering best practices have not been brought into the machine learning space, with the side-effect that there is a great deal of technical debt in these code bases.
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