Scaffolding is the software structure built around an AI model to make it useful and reliable: the prompts, retrieval pipelines, tool integrations, memory, cont
The software structure built around an AI model to make it useful and reliable: the prompts, retrieval pipelines, tool integrations, memory, control loops, and guardrails that turn raw model capability into a working application or agent.
Because most product differentiation lives in scaffolding, not in the model. Two teams with identical model access ship wildly different quality depending on their retrieval, evaluation, and orchestration engineering.