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AI sucks. Deal with it
AI sucks.
I said that on stage at KCDC this year, and I meant it. Not because the tech is useless, …
SLMs for custom tasks: when small models beat frontier ones, and how to be sure
On the first of September, Tobi Lütke, the CEO of Shopify, posted something on X that interested me: …
Don't delete your skills, audit them
Boris Cherny, who created Claude Code and runs it at Anthropic, gave some advice recently that made …
A Skill Is Just an Agent. So Measure Your Changes.
TL;DR: A skill is just an agent, a prompt running in a harness, so you can test a change to it …
The two-person team: the domain expert prompts, the engineer connects
At RenderATL I had the same conversation twice, from two different sides.
The first was at the …
The EU AI Act wants a record. Your traces are already most of one.
I read a piece by Angie Jones from the Agentic AI Foundation this week, The EU AI Act and the new …
Your eval criteria are already written, just scattered across three systems
In an earlier post I built a self-improving agent by mining a context graph out of data the team …
Evals Are a Revenue Strategy, Not a Safety Net
Here’s the moment every AI team knows. You have a demo that works. Not always, but most runs, …
Evals belong in your CI/CD pipeline
The other day I wrote that evals are just testing - the same old loop of “decide what good …
Long-horizon agent benchmarks are fragmenting: a field guide to what each one actually measures
Originally published on the Arize AI blog: Long-horizon agent benchmarks are fragmenting: a field …
AI evals are just testing (with a much weirder answer key)
Years ago, before “AI” meant chatbots and before anyone said the word “eval” …
The Phoenix Project still holds up, even if you replaced all the code with agents
I reread The Phoenix Project last month. I do this every year or two — it’s one of those books …