AI Model Selection Becomes a Team Decision
Choosing an AI model is no longer only an engineering decision. A model can produce an impressive answer in a demo and still be the wrong choice for the workflow that must use it every day. Product teams care about the user experience and acceptable response quality. Engineering teams must assess integration effort, latency, reliability, and monitoring. Security teams review system access and data exposure. Privacy and legal teams examine retention and processing terms. Finance looks beyond the advertised model price to usage, hosting, support, and review costs. Business owners must decide whether the result is valuable enough to justify those tradeoffs. ...