## 5 Best Practices for Building Robust Python AI Libraries This article covers building robust Python AI libraries specifically, Python AI SDK best practices, and what separates a production-ready AI package from one that only survives in its own demo. A well-loved open-source AI wrapper works perfectly in the maintainer's demo notebook. A week after someone else adopts it, three things break in three different ways. A missing API key crashes with a bare KeyError instead of a message anyone could act on. Installing the package for a simple text-classification feature silently pulls in a…