Production AI Lives Beyond the First Prompt

It's easy to build an impressive demo. Ask one carefully crafted question. Get one impressive answer. Celebrate. But production AI doesn't operate like demos. Users have conversations. They change context. They revisit earlier topics. They trigger edge cases. They ask the unexpected. That's where reliability is measured. Not by the first response—but by the consistency of the fiftieth. As AI agents become more autonomous, testing needs to reflect real usage. That means evaluating memory,…