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Software engineer struggles with monolithic prescriptive AI system

A software engineer is struggling to maintain a complex, monolithic prescriptive recommendation system built with XGBoost and Differential Evolution. The system's single repository contains all components, from data ingestion to post-processing, making it difficult to understand and update. The engineer faces daily challenges with generic and outdated documentation, leading to a constant need for "patches" and a feeling of being overwhelmed. AI

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Software engineer struggles with monolithic prescriptive AI system

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  1. r/MachineLearning TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/DescriptionBorn153 ·

    Dealing with a messy prescriptive monolith. How do you survive this? [D]

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Months ago, I got my first maintenance project. Before this, I had only built new solutions from scratch and maintained my own code. But maintaining someone else's system feels completely different.</p> <p>&#x200b;</p> <p>​It’s a prescriptive rec…