SMRTR ProgrammingMay 18, 2026Daily.dev

Six Choices Every AI Engineer Has to Make (and Nobody Teaches)

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Production AI decisions go far beyond model accuracy. This piece breaks down 6 critical trade-offs — build vs. buy, model complexity vs. maintainability, data quantity vs. quality, batch vs. real-time inference, prompt engineering vs. fine-tuning, and automation vs. human oversight — with real numbers and research-backed context to help developers make faster, smarter calls when it actually counts.

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