Three Lessons from an AI Makeathon
I recently participated in a makeathon focused on building AI-powered applications. Over 2–3 intense days, I watched teams go from idea to demo — and the patterns that separated working products from frustrated debugging sessions were remarkably consistent, especially for teams building AI agents.
From this makeathon and from my experience working with teams building AI applications and agents, here are the three lessons I took away on how to build reliable AI applications by engineering around non-determinism. Together, these form what I would like to call “The Architecture for Reasoning Control”.