Lesson 6 of 10 · AI Mastery: Ship an End-to-End Product
In this lesson. Eval failures, cost, and the next job in the thesis.
What you will learn
- Eval failures first
- Cost
- Next job
Walkthrough
You will sort the backlog by eval failures first. Mastery is a cadence. This is the last lesson: how you keep going.
Work through the ideas in order. After each point, pause and connect it to a task you already do — a document, a workflow, or a feature you own. The goal of AI Mastery: Ship an End-to-End Product is usable skill, not a pile of notes.
If something is unclear, rewrite it in your own words before you continue. Teaching the step back to yourself is the fastest way to see gaps.
Practice
Write a 30-day backlog of five items sorted by eval.
Keep the first attempt small. A finished example you can reuse beats a perfect plan you never run.
Check your understanding
- Can you explain the goal of this lesson in one sentence to a teammate?
- Where would you apply “Eval failures first” in your own work this week?
- What would you change on a second pass of the practice?
Next. Continue to the following lesson when the practice has a real artifact, even a rough one.