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Engineering notes / ATOL JOURNAL

AI needs a feedback loop.

Treat AI output as something to evaluate, not something to assume.

Define a bounded job

An AI feature needs a clear purpose and clear limits. Describe its inputs, expected outputs and the situations where a person should take over.

Make quality observable

Keep representative examples, including difficult cases. Review results against explicit criteria whenever the prompt, model or surrounding workflow changes.

Design for correction

Let people inspect, correct and reject a result. A useful system makes uncertainty visible and supports recovery when an output is wrong.
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