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Testing the Guardrails: What Actually Happens When Your AI Agent Misbehaves in ODC
You enabled the safety filters. But what does the developer experience actually look like when they fire? TL;DR Summary For OutSystems Developers: ODC's agent guardrails give you configurable, platform-level enforcement for prompt attack detection, PII masking, and harmful content filtering. Your LLM provider (Azure, Bedrock, etc.) catches some of these on its own, but inconsistently and without your control. Guardrails make it explicit, observable, and tunable. Two minutes
Natasha De Guzman
Jun 25
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Testing the Guardrails: What Actually Happens When Your AI Agent Misbehaves in ODC
You enabled the safety filters. But what does the developer experience actually look like when they fire? TL;DR Summary For OutSystems Developers: ODC's agent guardrails give you configurable, platform-level enforcement for prompt attack detection, PII masking, and harmful content filtering. Your LLM provider (Azure, Bedrock, etc.) catches some of these on its own, but inconsistently and without your control. Guardrails make it explicit, observable, and tunable. Two minutes
Natasha De Guzman
Jun 25
The OutSystems Inconlistency: When Your Lists Don't Know the Rules
A tale of Advent of Code, a shortest-path algorithm gone rogue, and a platform behaviour so silent you'd never know it was there... until it wasn't. It started with Advent of Code Every December, developers worldwide willingly sacrifice their sleep to Advent of Code - a series of daily programming puzzles that runs from December 1st through Christmas Day. It's the season of giving, and apparently we give our evenings to debugging. I decided to tackle the challenge in OutSyste
Greg Whitten
Jun 2
The Grounding Layer: Why OutSystems Opening Up Changes Everything
Tools will change in six months. Models will change in three. What stays with you is the context you have built.
João Sousa
Apr 23
AI in Hiring with a People-First Approach
Introduction In the race to adopt AI, hiring has become one of the most talked about, and often misunderstood areas of transformation. There’s a growing concern that AI will make hiring less human: that decisions will be reduced to algorithms, and that candidates will be filtered out before they’ve had a real chance to be seen. That hasn’t been our experience at Accelerated Focus, nor do we want it to be. If anything, AI has helped us free up time to become more people-focuse
Brittany Abernethy
Apr 1
How to build Trust in an AI-driven world
Introduction If I’m going to write about trust being human, I had to ask myself a slightly uncomfortable question: how human is this article actually going to be? Like any millennial, I opened Microsoft Word, started typing, deleted the first sentence, rewrote it to sound smarter, grabbed a coffee, changed the font size, and quickly realized this was going to take a lot longer than I had envisioned. And yes…the thought crossed my mind. Why not just run this through ChatGPT? S
Toni Hatherell
Mar 25
Building the Bridge: Connecting an Unsupported AI Model to ODC
OutSystems Developer Cloud's custom connection feature lets you integrate any AI provider beyond the built-in options. Here's how we leveraged this extensibility to connect Vertex AI Gemini with enterprise-grade security in one weekend. TL;DR Summary For OutSystems Developers: ODC’s "Custom Connection" feature is more powerful than it looks. If you can implement the contract, you can integrate any model. For Python Developers: FastAPI + Pydantic = The dream team. Let Goog
Natasha De Guzman
Feb 25
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