Track T11
Follow this capability from individual use to systems other people can depend on.
This mini-book is for Level 1 User. You are running one model for your own work, on your own laptop, through a desktop application. If it is slow, wrong, or unavailable, only your work should be affected. You are not creating a service for colleagues or connecting the model to other tools.
T11-L02 · Run your own AI · Level 2 Power user · 30-minute read
At this level, colleagues depend on something you built. A container makes an application repeatable; it does not make the application persistent, reachable, secure, or recoverable. You own those boundaries and the evidence that they work.
At Level 4 Integrator, company or lab systems and real data can depend on infrastructure you operate. Moving a working local stack to a server is not a copy operation. It adds provider accounts, DNS, Internet routes, certificates, individual access, patching, release evidence, staging, and an outage that affects...
At Level 5 Operator, a model endpoint is shared capacity. A configuration that answers one prompt can still fail ten colleagues through queue growth, memory exhaustion, unfair admission, or costs nobody counted. Your job is to publish a measured operating envelope, reject excess work safely, and know when another...