AI Workflow Challenges

Introduction

Design a 4-step workflow for an enterprise use case. Drawn whiteboard-style in interviews constantly.

Beginner analogy: Like system-design interviews — show structure, tradeoffs, evals.

Understanding the topic

Core concepts to understand:

• Pick a use case (support, legal, scribe).
• Sketch ingest → process → generate → validate.
• Add eval at each step.
• Add HITL trigger.
• List failure modes & recovery.

Syntax reference

Visual workflow / architecture:

Use case → 4-step diagram → evals → HITL → failure modes

Real-world use

Standard 'design an AI feature' interview question at AI-first companies.

Best practices

• Always show evals + HITL.
• Surface failure modes.
• Tradeoffs explicit.

Hands-on exercise

Interview preparation — practice these questions:

• Q1. Walk through your support workflow.
• Q2. Where put HITL?
• Q3. Failure modes?
• Q4. How measure success?