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Layered Context Routing Tames Campus Chaos: A Laptop AI Experiment That Actually Works

Everyone figured AI for ops would mean giant models slurping vague tickets into black-box hell. This PoC flips it: simple layers of TF-IDF policy pulls, building metadata, and urgency heuristics route requests transparently on your laptop.

Priya Sundaram 📅 Apr 03, 2026 ⏱️ 3 min read 👁️ 0 views
Flow diagram of CampusContextRouter-AI stacking policy retrieval, place metadata, and urgency signals for ticket routing

⚡ Key Takeaways

  • Layered context (policy + place + urgency) makes AI routing debuggable and laptop-friendly.
  • TF-IDF + rules outshine black-box prompts for institutional nuance.
  • PoC hints at enterprise revival of inspectable systems, dodging hallucination risks.

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Hardware and infrastructure reporter. Tracks GPU wars, chip design, and the compute economy.

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