# The journey to shippable AI systems: Patterns that work

DevFeed: [The journey to shippable AI systems: Patterns that work](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-journey-to-shippable-ai-systems-patterns-that-work-36065.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://temporal.io/blog/the-journey-to-shippable-ai-systems-patterns-that-work>)

Author: Tim Imkin

Published: 2025-11-18T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Temporal Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/temporal-blog.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [reliability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/reliability.md>), [distributed-systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/distributed-systems.md>), [AI-assisted coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-assisted-coding.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [audit](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/audit.md>), [automation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/automation.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [human-review](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/human-review.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident.md>), [reliability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reliability.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains how teams can make AI systems more reliable to operate and ship. It presents five patterns centered on resilience for nondeterministic LLM, retrieval, and external API steps; idempotent side effects; human approval checkpoints; and related operational controls.

## Source excerpt

Move from AI features to resilient AI systems. Use Durable Execution and five patterns to improve reliability, compliance, and day-to-day operations.