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Asif Iqbal
·12 MIN READ·AI IN SUPPORT

Deterministic state machines in LLM triage

Why prompt-based routing fails at enterprise scale and how state machines restore determinism.

Routing customer support tickets based on LLM sentiment or classification prompts leads to catastrophic nondeterminism during incident spikes.

We present a hybrid state-machine model where language models extract structured entities, but transition decisions are executed by a verified statechart.