Mindset Over Metrics: How to Approach AI Engineering | Hamel Husain
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As we enter the era of the AI engineer, the biggest challenge isn't technical - it's a shift in mindset. Hamel Husain, a leading AI consultant and luminary in the eval space, joins the podcast to explore the skills and processes needed to build reliable AI.
Hamel explains why many teams relying on vanity dashboards and a "buffet of metrics" experience a false sense of security, which is no substitute for customized evals tailored to domain-specific risks. The solution? A disciplined process of error analysis, grounded in manually looking at data to identify real-world failures
This discussion is an essential guide to building the continuous learning loops and "experimentation mindset" required to take AI products from prototype to production with confidence. Listen to learn the playbook for building AI reliability, and derive qualitative insights from log data to build customized quantitative guardrails.
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