#foundational-patterns
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2026-03-10
Signal Stability Classification: Inference Cost-Benefit in Hybrid Recommendation SystemsNot all behavioral signals deserve the same compute budget. Genre affinity changes over weeks; session mood changes in seconds. Classify by stability, infer by tier, and stop pretending daily batch is the answer to everything.
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2026-03-10
Pre-computed Personalization: The Offline Agent PatternWhy your personalization agent should never run at request time. The LLM does its heavy lifting on a schedule; your product serves the artifacts. Zero latency, infinite scale.