The initial hysteria of the generative AI boom has settled, leaving engineering teams to face production realities: latency, context windows, non-deterministic outputs, and unit economics.

In this deep dive:

• Beyond the wrapper hype: identifying defensible AI product architecture.
• Managing probabilistic outputs in deterministic enterprise workflows.
• Why prompt engineering is merely a temporary patch for systemic pipeline design.
• The pragmatic survival mindset required for product managers in the foundation model era.

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