My core stack is less "generate pretty pictures" and more "build the pipeline that does the think...My core stack is less "generate pretty pictures" and more "build the pipeline that does the think...
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Pooja Magewad
• Aug 8
My core stack is less "generate pretty pictures" and more "build the pipeline that does the thinking":
n8n — the glue. Great for orchestrating multi-step agent workflows and connecting APIs without writing a service from scratch. Weakness: gets messy fast on complex branching logic, and debugging a broken node chain eats time.
RAG (usually with a vector DB + LangChain-style retrieval) — lets me ground LLM output in actual client data instead of hallucinated generalities. Strength: dramatically improves accuracy for domain-specific asks. Weakness: chunking/retrieval quality is finicky, and a bad embedding setup silently tanks results without throwing an error.
Claude/GPT for reasoning + code — my default for anything needing judgment: analysis writeups, SQL/Python generation, proposal drafting. Strength: fast iteration. Weakness: still needs a human check on numbers — confident-sounding ≠ correct.
Power BI / Tableau — where the AI output actually becomes something a client trusts. AI can shortcut the analysis, but the dashboard is what gets signed off on.
The honest lesson: the "AI" part is maybe 30% of the workflow. The rest is validation, data plumbing, and making the output legible to a non-technical stakeholder.
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Eric Moore
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• 1d
Silent failures are what I watch closest. I treat an answer as untrusted unless I can show exactly which source text the model read, because fluent output can hide a bad match.
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Pooja Magewad
• 13h
I completely agree. I believe AI outputs should be traceable and verifiable, especially when accuracy matters. Being able to identify the exact source text behind an answer is important for catching silent failures, preventing incorrect matches, and building trust in AI systems.
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