A week in Google Meet taught me something about architecture constraints. You can't brute-force performance through a browser tab.
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AI has two modes: Cognitive and Operational. Work slop comes from treating everything like Cognitive Mode. The fix is knowing when to constrain AI to data-backed execution.
For weeks, the dream of bridging our underwriting models to the data warehouse felt like a fantasy. The breakthrough came when I stopped patching cracks and rebuilt the foundation.
The first version of our document routing agent hit 37.5% accuracy. The problem wasn't the AI — it was building probabilistic inference into a step that needed to be deterministic.