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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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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
Design with AI, Not by AI: Lessons from a Full App Concept Experiment
Can an Entire Application Concept Be Generated by AI? Short answer: Yes.
Longer answer: Yes.. if you treat AI as a collaborator, not a shortcut. Over the past year, many design teams have experimented with AI tools to generate UI screens, layouts, and even entire flows. In most cases, the first outcome is a visually pleasant but shallow, something nice to look at, yet detached from real user needs. This article documents a different kind of experiment:
Can an entire applica
Davide Arcoraci
Feb 4
Agent Experience (AX) Design: A Framework for Human–Agent Systems in OutSystems
Designing for AI Agents: Focusing on the How Recently, my colleague wrote about how AI is changing user interaction in complex systems. You can read that article here: https://www.acceleratedfocus.com/post/5-considerations-on-how-ai-rewrites-the-rules-of-user-interaction-in-complex-systems This article picks up where that one left off to focus on the how. Specifically, how we think about designing for AI agents inside real business processes. Not superficial chatbots, but ac
Kristi Kitz
Jan 21
5 Considerations on How AI Rewrites the Rules of User Interaction in Complex Systems
Over the past months, I have had the opportunity to design AI features for a complex enterprise application built on the OutSystems Platform . What began as a technical exploration quickly became something far more profound: a realization that AI doesn’t just add new capabilities to a product, it transforms the way humans and digital systems interact.
As AI begins to permeate workflows, interfaces, and decision-making, we are not simply adjusting our design toolkit. We are
Davide Arcoraci
Dec 12, 2025
Shipping a DevOps Wizard with ODC Workbench (our EAP story)
How I used OutSystems’ new Workbench to build a tiny one-page app that talks to an AI agent and deploys apps across our pipeline while keeping things governable, observable, and actually fun.
João Sousa
Sep 17, 2025
Bringing Clarity to Undocumented OutSystems Code with AI
Use AI tools like Amazon Q Developer to generate documentation for undocumented OutSystems apps. Start by extracting the source code, then prompt AI for app overviews, technical docs, user stories, and maintenance notes. Regular AI-powered updates keep docs fresh. Tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini also work. This turns mystery code into clear, maintainable systems and builds a culture of documentation.
Natasha De Guzman
Aug 19, 2025
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