Ship Your First AI Feature Without Breaking Your Codebase

Hosted by Mansi Pathak

Tue, Mar 24, 2026

4:00 PM UTC (30 minutes)

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What you'll learn

A framework for scoping your first LLM feature

Identify the right AI use case for your stage and ship a working feature in days, not months.

Keep AI logic cleanly separated from your core product

See exactly where to place LLM logic so it's testable, swappable, and won't take down your app.

The 5 failure modes in rushed AI integrations

Real examples: cost blowouts, prompt drift, latency spikes, and the decisions that prevent them.

Why this topic matters

Most teams ship their first AI feature fast and spend the next quarter fixing it. Prompt drift, cost blowouts, and latency spikes aren't bad luck; they're the result of integration decisions nobody flagged in week one. For engineers and tech leads at early-stage startups, knowing how to place AI cleanly in your stack is the difference between a feature that scales and one that becomes your bigg

You'll learn from

Mansi Pathak

Built enterprise products at VC-backed startups. Now advising the founders.

Mansi has spent 10+ years shipping production-ready systems for early-stage startups, writing code and setting technical direction at the same time. She runs Legacy Labs, a software engineering and consultancy firm, where she's designed LLM integrations, AI-native applications, and scalable AI infrastructure for founders who need to move fast without creating debt. She's teaching this because she's seen the same integration mistakes made over and over and wants others to have a framework before they're already in the mess.

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