About the author
Cyril Noirot
Lead Data Scientist
Freelance data scientist. I design and ship decision systems — forecasting, pricing, marketing measurement, optimization.
Generative AI
From SaaS to intelligence native: the feedback loop.
Intelligence-native systems need agent access to decision artefacts and feedback loops. Why context, not models, is the differentiator — and how MCP, traditional ML, and versioned artefacts fit together.
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Generative AI8 min
Who controls what your AI recommends?
Seasons, campaigns, and weekly events — retail runs on overlapping cycles, and the AI recommender has to keep up with all of them. Notes on the business-rules control surface that lets merchandising teams steer a conversational recommender without editing prompts, filing tickets, or waiting for a deploy.
Generative AI11 min
Ce que le commerce agentique exige vraiment en production
Macy's annonce que les clients utilisant son assistant IA dépensent 4,75x plus. Sephora vient de lancer une app dans ChatGPT. Zalando déploie son assistant dans 25 marchés. La question pour tous les autres retailers n'est plus 'faut-il le faire ?' mais 'comment l'architecturer pour que ça tienne en production ?'
Generative AI11 min
Building a recommendation engine that doesn't trust the LLM
This is the engineering companion to the production architecture piece. Instead of re-arguing why open-ended agents are risky in commerce, it walks through the actual implementation choices in `ai-florist`: FastAPI boundaries, LangGraph orchestration, pgvector retrieval, learned scoring weights, deterministic fallbacks, and runtime observability.
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