Do I need AI? Can deterministic code solve it?
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- AI
- Software techniques for tasks such as recognizing patterns, understanding language or generating content.
- Agent
- An application that uses a model to choose its next action within defined limits. It can use tools and continue through several steps.
- Ask what the user actually needs and what the existing system already knows.
- Exact lookups, arithmetic, validation, and known transitions usually belong in normal code.
- AI is useful when language/media variation or learned pattern recognition provides value that rules cannot achieve economically.
Evidence to seek: a rules baseline, representative inputs, failure cost, and measurable benefit. “Our competitors have an agent” is not a task requirement.
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Do I need AI? Can deterministic code solve it?
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Ask what the user actually needs and what the existing system already knows. Exact lookups, arithmetic, validation, and known transitions usually belong in normal code. AI is useful when language/media variation or learned pattern recognition provides value…
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