What we learn shipping AI systems, computer vision, and automation into production — written for the engineers and operators who have to run them.
Lighting changes, cameras drift, and the operators will move the mount. What we learned deploying defect detection into a plant that runs three shifts a day.
Fine-tuning is rarely the first answer and occasionally the only one. A short decision procedure for choosing between prompt engineering, retrieval, and training.
Where machine learning genuinely helps inside an ERP, where it absolutely should not go, and how to keep an auditable trail through both.