The AI Release Readiness Checklist
Checklist
A practical gate for AI features: failure modes, evaluation, oversight and rollback, checked before launch.
Failure modes
- What are the realistic ways this feature gives a wrong or harmful answer?
- Have we actually tried to break it, not just tested the happy path?
- What's the worst thing a confident wrong answer could cause here?
Evaluation
- Do we have an evaluation set that reflects real usage?
- What does “good enough to ship” mean, in measurable terms?
- Who reviewed the evaluation results before this decision?
Oversight
- Where does a human still check or approve the output?
- Is that oversight point actually enforced, not just assumed?
- What happens when the human isn't available?
Rollback
- Can this feature be turned off quickly if something goes wrong?
- Who is responsible for making that call?
- Is there a plan for what users see if it's rolled back mid-use?
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