Developing Generative AI Applications

The design of LLM based apps is like attending Mardi Gras. The outcome is unpredictable, but the results are often amazing. The design of AI systems needs a fundamentally new paradigm for the development of those systems because of their unprecedented call or innovating into novel solutions with competing solutions. Although the traditional systems development life cycle may include alternative analysis in its early phases, it did not consider fundamentally different approaches. Scrum attempted to improve upon SDLC for novel environments through iterative development that could adjust based on the results of early Sprints. With generative AI, the results can be surprising, and the providers are quickly changing calling for greater use of experiments to understand what is possible and in a solution. This paper describes a software development methodology for developing generative AI systems that embraces experimentation to produce better results.