Your deployed AI product just caused real harm at a customer. Run the incident response, first hour, first day, first week.

The capstone governance round: AI incidents break standard IR playbooks in three specific places, containment without rollback, blast-radius over probabilistic systems, and root cause for nondeterministic behavior. Interviewers grade you on knowing which three.

Updated Sep 2026 · Grounded in real Forward Deployed Engineer interview loops and written to a senior-engineer editorial bar.