When to Actually Build ML vs. When a Rules Engine Is Fine (With Architecture)
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"Let's add AI to this" is a sentence that skips past the actual engineering decision, which is: does this problem need a model that generalizes from data, or does it need a well-written set of rules? Those two paths diverge hard on architecture, ops burden, and failure modes. Here's how I actually…
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- 2026-09-30 10:50 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
When to Actually Build ML vs. When a Rules Engine Is Fine (With Architecture)