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  • Part 2 - Teaching It to Look Things Up: Tools, Spring AI and Conversations at Once

    Oct 10, 2026 java spring-ai ai-agents architecture

    Background Part 1 ended with a mistake worth fixing. Meera’s complaint was: “what is SQ \TPR HSPTLTY on my statement? I don’t recognise it at all.” The system flagged it as fraud every single time, with full confidence. And honestly, based on the words alone, that seemed fair. But the real issue wasn’t the prompt - it …

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  • Part 1 - Multiple Runs : Why Deterministic Thinking Breaks!

    Sep 30, 2026 java spring-ai ai-agents architecture

    Background In Part 0 we built the system that Meridian Bank already has as an existing banking system: a REST API over PostgreSQL that applies every dispute rule exactly, every time. Run the same request twice, get the same answer twice. That property of building deterministic systems and testing them out comes very …

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  • Part 0 - The Dispute That No Rule Could Catch: What AI-Native Really Means in Enterprise Java

    Sep 23, 2026 java spring-ai ai-agents architecture

    Background Meera opens her banking app and sees a payment in her transaction history that she doesn't recognise: ₹180 to SQ *TPR HSPTLTY, four days ago. She had never heard of it. So she does the responsible thing - She opens the dispute form of her bank, picks "Unrecognised or fraudulent transaction", types …

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  • Part 2 - Teaching It to Look Things Up: Tools, Spring AI and Conversations at Once
  • Part 1 - Multiple Runs : Why Deterministic Thinking Breaks!
  • Part 0 - The Dispute That No Rule Could Catch: What AI-Native Really Means in Enterprise Java
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