The Senior AI Mindset: Mental Models, Tradeoffs, and Judgment for Experienced Artificial Intelligence Engineers

The Senior AI Mindset is a practical, experience-driven book about how senior artificial intelligence engineers think. It focuses on mental models, judgment, and system-level decision-making rather than algorithms or tutorials. The book explores problem framing, data and uncertainty, production tradeoffs, failure modes, ethics, and long-term ownership of AI systems. It is written for experienced practitioners who design, deploy, and maintain real-world AI systems and are responsible for their outcomes, not just their accuracy.