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Packt Deep Engineering · Sep 10, 2026
Reliable AI Systems Are Five Rings of Boring Code
On Input validation, context assembly, bounded control flow, output guards, and telemetry. About forty lines of ordinary software wrapped around one probabilistic line.
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