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AI output: garbage in, garbage out

by | Aug 5, 2026

"Whatever goes in is what comes out. A good framework beats a good prompt every time."

Mike Vallalobos

SVP Strategy and Commercial Operations at Seedtag

“Automate it” is not a strategy, says Mike Villalobos, SVP of Strategy and Commercial Operations at Seedtag. Most teams stop at the instruction and don’t ask what’s built underneath, what data feeds it, or whether it’s just a thin layer over the same LLM everyone else is using.

His fix is unglamorous but essential: a unique data set in, a properly built framework around it, and real fluency in how these systems talk to each other. Add the wave of consolidation reshaping identity data, and the principle holds: know what’s underneath before you trust the output.

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