Tagged "deterministic-first"
6 articles
- ai-readiness Don't Make Your Agent Call an LLM to Tell What CMS a Page Is Built On Strong vs weak signals, confidence tiers, fixed iteration order. Heuristic page classification gives your agent a deterministic answer in microseconds.
- general Use AI Like Seasoning, Not Like Flour Deterministic code is the dish. AI is the seasoning. Most of what we reach for an LLM to do, a regex would handle faster and more honestly.
- ai-readiness Your MCP Server Needs Two Tools, Not One Most MCP servers ship one tool that does the work. They should ship two — one that produces a result, one that retrieves it by ID. Here's why.
- general Don't Have Claude Do Your Taxes Taxes look like a lookup table. They're actually a two-layer problem — and knowing where to draw the line is the whole skill of building with AI.
- obi-jam Validate AI-Parsed Output Before Your Code Touches It When Claude vision extracts structured data from images, missing fields silently corrupt downstream math. A validation gate catches it.
- obi-jam Your Agent Is Hallucinating Answers Instead of Running Tools When command routing fails silently, the LLM fills the gap with confident fabrications. The user never knows the tool didn't run.