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Nearly 9 in 10 Card Issuers Turn to AI to Stop Fraud Without Blocking Sales

For card issuers, artificial intelligence is moving closer to the transaction itself. Eighty-nine percent of issuers plan to adopt or expand at least one AI fraud capability, according to the PYMNTS Intelligence report “Investing Forward, Building the Edge,” done with Visa DPS. Half identify fraud detection and scoring as the single most important AI capability […] The post Nearly 9 in 10 Card…

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Nearly 9 in 10 Card Issuers Turn to AI to Stop Fraud Without Blocking Sales

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AI agent tool schemas cut 47%: the duplicate YAML key that disabled nothing

My self-hosted AI agents were slow, and I spent a while assuming the model was the problem. It wasn't. Most of every request was the agent describing its own tools to the model, over and over, for…

  • 47% reduction in processing time achieved through AI agent tool schema optimization
  • Duplicate YAML key disabled no tools but caused empty list of tools
  • Specialist agent profiles saw 47% reduction in tool schema bytes and 27% smaller prompt size

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Discovery Phase AI vs ChatGPT: an honest comparison

ChatGPT is a good tool for drafting parts of a discovery phase: a problem statement, a first list of requirements, a summary of a call.

  • ChatGPT excels in initial stages of discovery, drafting problem statements and requirements
  • Discovery Phase AI specializes in comprehensive discovery documents over multiple stages
  • Discovery Phase AI offers structured approach, consistency checks, and version history

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