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Rafael Lopes · Production AI Engineer · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (Brazilian) · member of Cloud Native Computing Foundation — Vancouver.
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There is a gap at the centre of enterprise AI, and IBM has been pointing at it for years: organisations deploy AI far faster than they govern it [Source 1]....
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The Problem Single-pass LLM calls don't survive contact with production. The moment you give a model tools that mutate state — booking flights, processing...