Why Your AI Product Needs Evals with Hamel Husain and Swyx

Hamel Husain is a seasoned AI consultant and engineer with experience at companies like GitHub, DataRobot, and Airbnb. He is a trailblazer in AI development, known for his innovative work in literate programming and AI-assisted development tools. Shawn Wang (aka Swyx) is the host of the Latent Space podcast, the author of the essay 'Rise of the AI Engineer,' and the founder of the AI Engineer World Fair. In this episode, Hamel and Swyx share their unique insights on building effective AI products, the critical importance of evaluations, and their vision for the future of AI engineering.

Chapters
00:00 - Introduction and recent AI advancements

06:14 - The critical role of evals in AI product development

15:33 - Common pitfalls in AI product development

26:33 - Literate programming: A new paradigm for AI development

39:58 - Answer AI and innovative approaches to software development

51:56 - Integrating AI with literate programming environments

58:47 - The importance of understanding AI prompts

01:00:37 - Assessing the current state of AI adoption

01:07:10 - Challenges in evaluating AI models

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