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Last updated: September 19, 2026, 2:01 PM ET

AI & ML Research

Deduplicating a 10,000-row supplier list exposes how deterministic stages outperform fuzzy similarity scores when one vendor appears under four spellings, since exact normalization rules beat probabilistic matching on messy real-world data.

Engineering Practice

Running agents for four months produced a counterintuitive result: AI made work 5x faster while quietly degrading judgment, with one near miss revealing the verification gap that speed-oriented workflows tend to hide.