http://programmer.ie/tags/ladders/ Recent content in Ladders on Programmer.ie: Modern AI programming Hugo en-us Mon, 14 Sep 2026 05:00:28 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/applied-ai/28-chapter/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 05:00:28 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/applied-ai/28-chapter/ <p><em>Part 6 — Put Intelligence Into the Process</em></p> <h2 id="a-claim-awaiting-a-check">A claim awaiting a check</h2> <p><strong>Constructed scene.</strong> A patch sits open with one review comment unresolved: a retry test that may or may not cover the new branch. Three things could happen next. A model could propose a fix. A deterministic check could run the test suite. A person could be asked whether the branch matters at all. Each costs something different, fails differently, and answers a different question. &ldquo;Try a stronger model&rdquo; is not on that list until something has established that generation is the missing operation.</p>