Design an AI system around its failure modes, not its happy path

In an AI system design round, the happy path takes two minutes to draw. Spend the time on what fails: retrieval that misses, a model that is confidently wrong, latency over budget, cost spikes and stale data. Name each failure, how you detect it, what the user sees and which component owns the fix.

LESSON 13 OF 20 · 17 MIN ESTIMATED STUDY · PREMIUM