The Inverted Stack
The Inverted Stack happens when you let an AI make a decision that should have been a simple, permanent rule. It is like asking a creative artist to follow a strict mathematical formula instead of just giving them the formula to use, which makes the system unpredictable and prone to errors where it should be reliable.
A design failure where probabilistic model inference is substituted for deterministic business logic. By allowing the model to handle core decision-making processes that require binary certainty, the system loses its stability and forces the AI to perform tasks it is not architecturally suited for, rather than keeping it at the periphery for creative or fuzzy tasks.
The failure mode of the 98/2 Principle: probabilistic logic placed where deterministic rules belong (letting the un-codified model decide, or compute a score), inverting the stack that should keep the model at the swappable 2% edge. (C4AIL.)