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Prompt Fragility - The tendency for AI prompts to break or produce degraded outputs when small changes occur in input data, phrasing, or model versions.
Determinism - The principle that given the same inputs and initial conditions, a system or process will always produce the same outputs.
Durability - The property ensuring that data persists and survives system failures, power outages, and crashes.
Context Poisoning - The degradation of AI model performance when irrelevant, misleading, contradictory, or adversarial information is included in the context window.
Input Randomness - The variability and unpredictability in the inputs provided to an AI system, including prompt phrasing, context composition, and information ordering, which directly influences the quality and consistency of outputs.
AI Grounding - The practice of anchoring AI model outputs in verifiable, current, and authoritative information sources to reduce hallucinations and bridge knowledge gaps.
Prompt Adherence - The degree to which a large language model follows the instructions, constraints, and formatting specified in a prompt.
AI Skill Resilience - The ability of AI skills to handle failures, edge cases, and unexpected inputs gracefully without crashing or producing harmful results.
AI Instruction Drift - The gradual deviation of AI behavior from original instructions over extended interactions, caused by accumulating contradictory rules or evolving user intent without matching instruction updates.
Loose Ends - Unresolved commitments and incomplete promises that accumulate over time, eroding trust and damaging relationships.
Chaos Engineering - The discipline of experimenting on distributed systems to build confidence in their ability to withstand turbulent conditions.
AI Observability - The ability to understand what an AI system is doing, why it is doing it, and how well it is performing by extending traditional software observability to AI-specific concerns.
Steerability - The ability to control and direct an AI model's behavior, tone, style, and output characteristics through instructions and configuration.
Redundancy - The inclusion of extra components beyond the minimum necessary, serving as backups to maintain system function when primary components fail.
Sample Size - The number of observations in a study, critical for the reliability and precision of findings.
Single Point of Failure - A component whose failure would cause the entire system to stop functioning, representing a critical vulnerability in any system design.
Data Availability - The assurance that data and systems are accessible when needed by authorized users.
Self-Consistency Prompting - A decoding strategy that samples multiple reasoning paths and selects the most consistent answer through majority voting.
Defensive Design - A design philosophy that anticipates user errors, edge cases, and misuse, building systems that fail gracefully, guide users away from mistakes, and remain robust under unexpected conditions.
ACID Properties - The four guarantees for reliable database transactions: Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability.
AI Lethal Trifecta - Dangerous combination of AI sycophancy, hallucination, and instruction drift that compounds agent failure modes.
AI Skill Testing - Validating AI skill correctness, reliability, and performance before deployment through structured evaluation and automated test suites.
Do What You Said You Would Do - A principle of integrity and reliability - honor your commitments by following through on what you promised.
Idempotency - A property where an operation can be applied multiple times without changing the result beyond the initial application.
Output Randomness - The intentional and unintentional variability in AI-generated outputs arising from sampling parameters, model stochasticity, and the probabilistic nature of next-token prediction.
Configuration Drift - Gradual divergence of a system's actual configuration from its intended or documented state over time.
Problem Management - The practice of identifying and managing the underlying causes of incidents to prevent recurrence and minimize impact.
Data Integrity - The accuracy, consistency, and reliability of data throughout its lifecycle.
Eventual Consistency - A consistency model in distributed systems where, given enough time without new updates, all replicas of the data will converge to the same value, trading immediate consistency for higher availability.
Reliability - The quality of consistently performing as expected and delivering on commitments and promises over time.
Data Redundancy - The practice of storing multiple copies of data to protect against loss from hardware failures, corruption, or disasters.
Incident Management - The process of identifying, responding to, and resolving unplanned disruptions to restore normal service as quickly as possible.

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