Semantic Blindness: 500,000 Sensors Confused an LLM - Raahul Singh & Vanč Levstik, Phaidra

Modern LLMs struggle with combinatorial engineering problems in industrial settings due to "Semantic Blindness" – an inability to understand physical system topology, scale efficiently, or handle repetitive naming conventions. This talk introduces a hybrid AI architecture that combines LLMs for high-level planning with deterministic systems for execution, leveraging hierarchical structures and pattern-based search. This approach achieves 100% accuracy and flat operational costs at massive scales, demonstrating an "inversion" of the Software 1.0/3.0 paradigm where AI-native systems mature by integrating deterministic code for reliable, structured tasks.