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# Consistency

> Boring as a feature

## Slaying the dragon

In many ways, *consistency* is the hallmark of analytical AI. We hear it all the time from teams we work with. "Why can't I get my model to *consistently* get it to behave like I want it to?"

You don't hear this as much from teams who are specifically looking for creative, emergent behavior from models. In the world of analytical AI, your goal is to manufacture **boring outcomes**: a model that consistently does one thing well. That way you can spend your time on everything that isn't so boring.

The main levers are [task specificity](/patterns/consistency/task-specificity), [parallel sampling](/patterns/consistency/parallel-sampling), and better [confidence signals](/patterns/consistency/confidence-scores).