#Automation
Posts tagged Automation.
Structured output beats parsing prose
If your code needs a value from a model, ask for JSON and validate it. Regexing an answer out of a paragraph is a bug wa...
An agent is a loop, not a personality
Strip away the branding and an agent is a small loop: call the model, run the tool it asked for, feed the result back, r...
Tool calling is an API contract the model can read
A tool definition is documentation with a schema attached. Write it for a capable colleague who has never seen your syst...
When a workflow beats an agent
If you already know the steps, do not ask a model to rediscover them on every request. A fixed pipeline with model calls...
What an AI agent can actually do with a design system
Given a real design system, a model stops inventing interfaces and starts assembling them. The difference is not the mod...
Design tokens are the interface AI needs
A token that only names a hex value has saved you nothing. A token that names a job tells a model which decision it is m...
Generating layouts that respect a grid
Generated layouts usually look almost right, and "almost" is where the eye catches. Most of the fix is stating the rules...
Streaming responses without breaking your UI
Streaming makes a slow response feel fast. It also means rendering text that is syntactically incomplete, and handling a...
Rate limits, retries and the backoff you actually need
Every AI feature meets a 429 eventually. Whether that is a blip or an outage depends on retry logic written before you n...
What to tell users when the model is wrong
Your AI feature will be confidently wrong in front of a user. What the interface does in that moment decides whether the...
AI adoption without a rewrite
The best first AI feature is small, measurable and easy to switch off. Start where a wrong answer is cheap and the value...