Hamel Husain is an independent AI consultant and a well-known voice in the evals space, having worked with companies including Airbnb and GitHub. On Chain of Thought he explained why vanity dashboards and a "buffet of metrics" give teams a false sense of security, and why disciplined error analysis grounded in looking at real data is what actually improves AI.
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Latest episode with Hamel Husain · EP 37
Mindset Over Metrics: How to Approach AI Engineering | Hamel Husain
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… You'll be surprised, like, how many people think prompt is an abstract concept because they say something in a meeting and the expectation is a developer's gonna write the prompt. That's the worst thing that can possibly happen. So whatever way possible you needed to get away from that.
Mindset Over Metrics: How to Approach AI Engineering | Hamel Husain
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