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Canary rollouts for new agent prompts and tools
Ship prompt changes to 5% of traffic first so a regression cannot break the whole product.
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What this lesson covers
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The main moves in order
- 1The premise
- 2canary release
- 3progressive rollout
- 4blast radius
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Section 1
The premise
Prompt and tool changes deserve the same canary discipline as code deploys.
What AI does well here
- Route a percentage of sessions to the new prompt
- Compare success metrics across canary and control
What AI cannot do
- Decide the success metric for you
- Detect a slow-burning quality drop in 5 minutes
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