Lesson 4 of 10 · AI Mastery: Ship an End-to-End Product
In this lesson. SLOs for task success, latency, and unit cost.
What you will learn
- Task success
- Latency
- Unit cost
Walkthrough
You will write three SLOs. Mastery is operating the tradeoff in public. This is the spec.
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 three SLOs with numbers you would defend.
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 “Task success” 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.