ai engineering

Ship reliable AI without heavyweight platforms: this Bash-first guide builds a runnable 5-part checklist—reproducible envs and lockfiles, data manifests with integrity/schema guards, model cards with provenance, fast smoke evals for latency/policy, and CI/pre-commit wiring. Includes step-by-step scripts, tooling setup, and workflows to boost traceability, safety, and team velocity from laptop to CI.