9 Deployment and management

This chapter covers

  • Tracking changes to your AI assistant over time
  • Managing multiple versions of your assistant
  • Safely deploying code to production

The day Fictitious Inc. decided to build a conversational AI assistant was the happiest day of John Doe’s life. John, a developer at Fictitious Inc., could not wait to get started building. He raced ahead of the rest of his project team, spending nights and weekends developing the assistant. John’s project team was happy about his enthusiasm, but nobody on the team was exactly sure what John was up to all the time.

Communication with John was a struggle. He was slow to respond to instant messages and emails. Occasionally a team member would walk to John’s desk find ...

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