Wiki · Theme
tool-selection
4 notes tagged with this theme.
All themes
Heuristic Architect AI around principles, not vendors Tools will keep changing; architectures tied to a specific vendor ecosystem age poorly and limit the organisation's ability to adopt what comes next. Pattern Retrieval middleware is being absorbed into platforms at mid-tier scale The middleware layer that vendors and consultants propose to build around frontier models — retrieval pipelines, evaluation harnesses, observability — is being absorbed into the platforms themselves at mid-tier scale; work commissioned to build it now is liable to be stranded by the vendor's own roadmap within an acceptable timeframe. Heuristic Declining AI engineering commits you to content discipline The argument for deferring a custom AI build — pipeline, integration, evaluation harness — because content quality is the real leverage point only holds while someone is actively doing the content work; declining the engineering is a commitment to the discipline, not a free deferral. Heuristic Start with knowledge management, not tools Audit and structure what the organisation knows before selecting AI tools; the limits of AI output are set by the limits of its input context.