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From prompt to pipeline: when chat stops being enough

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The moment an AI workflow needs state, retries, and observability — and how I decide when to graduate from a chat thread to a real system.

Chat is a great workshop. It is a bad factory.

Graduate when state shows up

When a workflow needs retries, state, ownership, and logs, graduate it into a pipeline. Keep the agent. Lose the amnesia.

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Jason Lea

AI product builder. Thoughts, experiments and lessons from building with AI — and shipping real products across comparison, tools, and marketplaces.

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