Your agent is live. Design the improvement flywheel: logging, eval mining, prompt versioning, canary rollout
Launch is the starting line. The staff-level capstone: how production traffic becomes eval cases, prompts ship like code, and a model deprecation becomes a Tuesday instead of an incident.
Updated Aug 2026 · Grounded in real Forward Deployed Engineer interview loops and written to a senior-engineer editorial bar.
Launch is the starting line. The staff-level capstone: how production traffic becomes eval cases, prompts ship like code, and a model deprecation becomes a Tuesday instead of an incident.
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.
