Tagged rules-engine
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When You Automate the Gatekeeper Away, Every Check They Made By Eye Becomes a Rule You Have to Enforce
A platform that lets a counterparty accept a binding quote without a human looking at it has not removed the gate, it has moved it into code. Every check the trader used to perform by judgement now has to exist as an enforced rule, the binding action has to be idempotent, and the number the engine computes has to equal the number the human would have produced, to the cent. The rounding trap that makes a parity test agree with itself is the one that costs money.
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A Global Minimum Is Wrong in Both Directions: Feasibility Rules Belong Per Location
One threshold applied everywhere is simultaneously too strict where conditions are easy and too loose where they are hard, so it rejects good options and admits dangerous ones at the same time. Feasibility rules have to be per location and per case, and the cases differ in kind rather than in degree: clearing immigration and collecting a bag is not a longer version of walking between gates.