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TECHNIQUE TAXONOMY

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How production AI is actually built. Counts are live mappings from deployment teardowns — empty techniques are unobserved, not hidden.

347TECHNIQUE-MAPPED SOLUTION LINKS
01

Retrieval & Grounding

43
Basic RAG13 OP10Hybrid retrieval8 OP6Query transformation1 OP1Reranking6 OP5Structured & graph RAG3 OP3Embedding engineering10 OP10LLM-friendly knowledge representation9 OP8
02

Agentic Orchestration

57
Prompt chaining (fixed pipelines)8 OP8Routing / intent classification7 OP6Parallelization12 OP11Orchestrator–workers4 OP4Evaluator–optimizer loop4 OP4Single-agent tool loop (ReAct)4 OP2Multi-agent topologies8 OP5Human-in-the-loop checkpoints20 OP17
03

Tool Use & Structured Output

21
Function calling / skills (API wrapping)10 OP5Schema-constrained generation8 OP5Code generation & execution11 OP9Tool registries & MCP5 OP2
04

Model Adaptation

27
Prompt engineering at scale16 OP14Supervised fine-tuning8 OP7Preference optimization0Distillation2 OP3Continued/domain pretraining3 OP3
05

Evaluation

60
Golden-set offline evals20 OP17LLM-as-judge9 OP9Human annotation programs12 OP9Simulation-based testing2 OP2Online evaluation20 OP17Prompt regression suites6 OP6
06

Guardrails & Safety

31
Input guards2 OP1Output guards7 OP8Deterministic rule guards7 OP10Access-control-aware retrieval5 OP5Fallback & escalation design7 OP7
07

Serving & Inference

30
Latency engineering10 OP8Throughput optimization3 OP4Runtime & hardware5 OP5Caching5 OP4Model routing & cascades2 OP2Token-cost engineering6 OP7
08

Data & Context Engineering

30
Document ETL for LLMs5 OP4Context & memory management10 OP6Knowledge-base lifecycle7 OP5Synthetic data generation9 OP6LLM observability & tracing14 OP9
09

Computer Vision

7
Image classification2 OP1Object detection5 OP2Segmentation0OCR & document vision2 OP2Video analytics1 OP1Medical imaging models1 OP1
10

Predictive & Classical ML

8
Gradient-boosted models2 OP2Time-series forecasting2 OP2Anomaly detection4 OP3Survival & risk scoring0Uplift & causal models1 OP1
11

Graph ML

0
Graph neural networks0Graph feature engineering0Link prediction & entity resolution0
12

Decision Optimization

3
Mathematical programming0Routing & scheduling1 OP1Simulation & digital twins2 OP2Reinforcement learning for control0
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Other / unclassified technique39 OP30