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1. The AI production stack

Security, observability, memory, and automation are the four operational pillars.

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A demo needs a model and a prompt. A product needs four more layers:

- Security — injection defence, PII handling, output filtering, tool authorisation. - Observability — traces, token and cost accounting, quality scores, alerts. - Memory — durable user and session state outside the context window. - Automation — schedulers and workflow engines that run AI work reliably and idempotently.

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export async function aiCall(input: string, ctx: Ctx) {
  const span = tracer.start("ai.generate", { userId: ctx.userId });
  const screened = await screenInput(input);                 // security
  if (!screened.ok) return span.blocked(screened.reason);
  const res = await gateway.chat({ model: "openai/gpt-5.6-sol", messages: build(screened.text) });
  span.end({ promptTokens: res.usage.prompt_tokens, completionTokens: res.usage.completion_tokens });
  return redactPii(res.text);                                // output filtering
}

Every AI request should pass through one wrapper like this. Scattered direct SDK calls make it impossible to add a guardrail or a cost metric later without touching every file.

Exercise: find every direct model call in a project and route them through a single `aiCall` helper. Then add cost logging in one place and confirm all features report it.

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  1. 1. Why funnel all model calls through one wrapper?

  2. 2. Which four layers turn a demo into a product?

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