AI Interaction Guide
A practical, opinionated guide on how to build actuarial tools with AI. Written for a senior actuary — someone who knows what qₓ means and has never written a for-loop. The goal is not to teach you to code. The goal is to teach you to direct AI to code for you, correctly and reliably.
This guide is built from real experience building the apps in this marketplace. Every pattern here has been tested against failure modes. Where something doesn't work, we say so.
How to think about AI as a coding partner. Why domain expertise is now the scarce resource.
The 5 patterns that consistently produce correct actuarial code. With examples from real model builds.
Why defining the interface before writing code reduces AI errors by ~70%. Templates included.
How to read AI-generated code, classify the error type, and direct the AI to fix it correctly.
The full journey: from Excel model to deployed app. Concept mapping and a 6-month roadmap.