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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.

212TECHNIQUE-MAPPED SOLUTION LINKS
01

Retrieval & Grounding

24
Basic RAG10 OP5Hybrid retrieval7 OP5Query transformation1 OP1Reranking5 OP4Structured & graph RAG1 OP1Embedding engineering7 OP4LLM-friendly knowledge representation6 OP4
02

Agentic Orchestration

42
Prompt chaining (fixed pipelines)6 OP6Routing / intent classification5 OP3Parallelization10 OP9Orchestrator–workers3 OP3Evaluator–optimizer loop3 OP3Single-agent tool loop (ReAct)4 OP2Multi-agent topologies7 OP4Human-in-the-loop checkpoints12 OP12
03

Tool Use & Structured Output

15
Function calling / skills (API wrapping)9 OP4Schema-constrained generation5 OP3Code generation & execution8 OP7Tool registries & MCP4 OP1
04

Model Adaptation

17
Prompt engineering at scale10 OP9Supervised fine-tuning6 OP4Preference optimization0Distillation1 OP2Continued/domain pretraining2 OP2
05

Evaluation

34
Golden-set offline evals14 OP10LLM-as-judge6 OP5Human annotation programs9 OP6Simulation-based testing0Online evaluation14 OP10Prompt regression suites3 OP3
06

Guardrails & Safety

20
Input guards2 OP1Output guards6 OP6Deterministic rule guards5 OP7Access-control-aware retrieval5 OP3Fallback & escalation design3 OP3
07

Serving & Inference

19
Latency engineering6 OP4Throughput optimization2 OP3Runtime & hardware2 OP3Caching4 OP3Model routing & cascades1 OP1Token-cost engineering5 OP5
08

Data & Context Engineering

20
Document ETL for LLMs4 OP2Context & memory management8 OP4Knowledge-base lifecycle5 OP3Synthetic data generation7 OP4LLM observability & tracing12 OP7
09

Computer Vision

3
Image classification0Object detection1 OP1Segmentation0OCR & document vision1 OP1Video analytics0Medical imaging models1 OP1
10

Predictive & Classical ML

2
Gradient-boosted models1 OP1Time-series forecasting1 OP1Anomaly detection0Survival & risk scoring0Uplift & causal models0
11

Graph ML

0
Graph neural networks0Graph feature engineering0Link prediction & entity resolution0
12

Decision Optimization

0
Mathematical programming0Routing & scheduling0Simulation & digital twins0Reinforcement learning for control0
Unclassified
Other / unclassified technique19 OP16