Anti-Pattern Reference
Explore common anti-patterns in Claude AI system design affecting agent loops, tool integrations, prompts, context management, and evaluation. Learn to recognize symptoms, understand causes, and apply fixes to ensure reliability and production readiness. This lesson helps you audit AI systems effectively and prepare for certification by mastering patterns that prevent predictable failures.
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 ...