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Field notes from Shriram IT Ventures delivery work on Travel: AI Evaluation Harness Guide: the constraints that matter, the shortcuts that haunt you, and a checklist we still use.
Who this is for
Ship a thin vertical slice, measure, then widen. Big-bang rewrites rarely survive the first month of real traffic.
Decisions that still look smart in 18 months
Instrument the happy path and the ugly path. Silent failures are what turn a launch into a weekend incident.
Build checklist we actually use
Ignore the buzzwords. For Travel: AI Evaluation Harness Guide, the hard constraint is usually data ownership or ops capacity — not how many features fit on a roadmap slide.
Failure modes we keep seeing
Instrument the happy path and the ugly path. Silent failures are what turn a launch into a weekend incident.
How we measure rollout
Ignore the buzzwords. For Travel: AI Evaluation Harness Guide, the hard constraint is usually data ownership or ops capacity — not how many features fit on a roadmap slide.
We update this when delivery patterns change on live client work.