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Who stands behind this episode
✓ Expert curatedThe narration is AI-generated. The substance is not — every atom is drawn from material this curator wrote, reviewed and signed off before it was voiced.
Syllabus
1. The Determinism Problem (and what 'deterministic' honestly means here)
- Understanding LLM Non-Determinism
- Engineering Determinism
2. The Core Architecture: Thin Agent, Fat Platform, Thin Skill
- Deconstructing the Architecture
- Why This Architecture Works
3. Five Rules the Platform Enforces
- Core Enforcement Principles
- State, Context, and Roles
4. Enforcement Outside the Model (The Load-Bearing Idea)
- Code-Based Enforcement
- Validating Enforcement Mechanisms
5. Fixed Phases with Exit Gates
- Structuring Workflows with Phases
- Orchestrating Phase Transitions
6. What the Platform Gives You (The Four Primitives)
- Platform Primitives for Reliability
- Orchestrating with Platform Primitives
7. Design Exercise
- Designing a Deterministic Workflow

