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Glossary: AI System Design

Approach ladder

Also written: the ladder

The six ways to build an AI feature, from simplest to most work: prompt only, stuffed context, RAG, workflow, agent, fine-tuning. Start at the bottom and climb only when a target forces you to.

Where the book teaches it

Related terms

Stuffed contextRAG (retrieval-augmented generation)WorkflowAgentFine-tuning