From MLOps to AI engineering: what industrializing ML still teaches us

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Overview

A trained model is the start of the work, not the end. The lessons of industrializing machine learning carry straight into generative and agentic AI, which is why AI engineering has to unify DataOps, MLOps and DevOps.¹

What it covers

• Why ML was never just software
• The lifecycle we industrialized
• What carries over to generative AI
• What does not carry over
• From MLOps to AI engineering
• The head start nobody talks about

Bottom line

The lessons of MLOps still hold for generative and agentic AI: industrialize the path to production, measure what happens after launch, and give risk teams the same evidence the builders have.

Sources

1. From MLOps to AI engineering: what industrializing ML still teaches us · published Nov 19, 2024

See also

• Agent-first data architecture: five principles - Data platforms built for people asking questions will strain when the main consumer is software taking actions. Five principles for designing data platforms where agents are first-class users, and why an open lakehouse helps.
• The AI-native SDLC: when typing code stops being the bottleneck - AI has made writing code cheap. Verification, trusted context and human judgment are now the scarce resources, and teams that redesign their lifecycle around them will pull away from teams that only add assistants.

Footnotes

1. From MLOps to AI engineering: what industrializing ML still teaches us, muthub.org, 2024-11-19. ↩