5 Prerequisites for Every Ai Project
Most Ai pilots fail—not because teams lack talent, but because Ai ships without scaffolding. This page gives you the minimum structure to go from impressive ideation to durable enterprise systems.
Adopt a “Day Zero” discipline baseline
Version your prompts, keep a change log, and back up everything. If it isn’t reproducible, it isn’t real.
Give Ai a home: thin scaffolding first
Start with a tiny persistence layer (anchors.json), a config file, and a health check. Small, simple, dependable.
Work in Agile loops, not waterfall plans
Short commands → immediate feedback. Two steps, test; not twenty. Continuous testing isn’t a best practice—it’s survival.
Apply GRASP & OO discipline to GPTs
Treat agents like objects with clear contracts. Encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism prevent cross-bleed and drift.
Remember the multiplier effect
Ai magnifies what you already are. Strong architecture compounds; weak practices collapse faster.
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