Assign determinism and judgment per pipeline stage, not as an either-or

aronchick · x · 2026-09-26

Part 3 of aronchick's thread: the mistake is picking one. Determinism and judgment are per-stage properties — joins, aggregations, dedupe, validation stay deterministic; messy inputs like extraction, classification and narration are where models add value rules can't.

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