Anti-Pattern Reference
Explore common architectural anti-patterns in Claude-powered AI systems to understand their symptoms, causes, and fixes. Learn to identify issues in agent loops, tool integration, prompt design, context management, and evaluation metrics. This lesson equips you with a checklist to audit your AI system for predictable failures and improve reliability before production deployment.
Anti-patterns are design choices that seem reasonable in isolation but produce predictable failures at scale or under realistic conditions. Each one in this reference was introduced in an earlier chapter and appears here consolidated, with its ...