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Pure AI vs Deterministic Software in Workflow Orchestration
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Pure AI vs Deterministic Software in Workflow Orchestration

Useful framing for deciding where LLM calls belong in a workflow. Keep judgment-heavy steps probabilistic, but make routing, validation, and state deterministic.

[ KEY POINTS ]
  1. Pure AI flows trade control for flexibility. Good for fuzzy judgment, weak for repeatable production behavior.
  2. Deterministic software handles routing, retries, validation, and persistence better. That is where reliability compounds.
  3. A practical LLM workflow should separate model judgment from execution rules. This reduces cost, drift, and debugging pain.
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