Expanso's Split Architecture: Deterministic Pipelines With an LLM Judgment Layer

aronchick · x · 2026-09-20

Josh Rosen argues many 'deterministic' software decisions exist only because inference used to be too expensive. Expanso's article shows a concrete split: shape/fingerprint/count/route stays in deterministic nodes, while judgment questions (actionability, severity, owner) go through one readable HTTP call to the LLM, returning typed answers — demonstrated across ten real pipelines.

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