Why Your AI Agent Will Fail In Production

Join us for a free live session on why prompts that pass every test you've written still fail once real users get involved.

Drawn from Building Reliable AI Agents, Ali Parandeh's upcoming Manning liveProject series.

In this talk, Ali will cover the reliability gap specific to the prompt and evaluation layer: non-determinism that a handful of test cases won't catch, evaluation setups that look rigorous and measure very little, and prompts that regress quietly the moment something upstream changes.
This session is designed for anyone writing or evaluating prompts for production systems, not just experimenting in a playground.

• Date: Monday 10 August 2026
• Time: 6:30pm to 7:30pm (1 hour)
• Location: Online (Free)

We'll cover:

• Why a prompt passing your test set tells you less than you think
• Evaluation approaches that surface real failure modes, not vanity metrics
• Prompt regression: catching it before your users do
• Where guardrails belong in a prompt-driven system
• A preview of the upcoming Building Reliable AI Agents Series (Manning, 2026)

No coding setup required, this is a talk with live examples.

Speaker
Ali Parandeh is a Chartered Engineer (CEng) with the UK Engineering Council and author of Building Generative AI Services with FastAPI (O’Reilly, 2025). With a career spanning engineering consultancy, global tech firms, and AI start-ups, he has led teams to design and deploy scalable AI-powered products across transport, finance, education, healthcare, and manufacturing.

Certified by both Microsoft (Azure Developer) and Google (Professional Data Engineer), Ali is recognised for making complex AI concepts practical and accessible. He delivers training for the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and runs Build Your AI, a consultancy focused on getting safe AI adoption right in heavy industry and engineering organisations. He speaks regularly at industry events and is known for pairing real technical depth with practical applications.

Agenda

• 6:30-6:45pm: Introductions & conceptual overview
• 6:45-7:15pm: Talk with live examples
• 7:15-7:30pm: Q&A and closing

Spaces are limited. Registration is free but required to secure your seat.
Register at: https://luma.com/ecyxsgcn

You can learn more about the upcoming series at: https://buildinggenai.com