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Ep 12
AI With Laksh
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Episode 12·Apr 28, 2026·1h 14m

Eval Pipelines That Don't Lie

with Sarah Chen · Research Engineer, Anthropic

How Anthropic teams design evals that survive contact with production. Sarah on the difference between LLM-as-judge in research vs in shipping.

13:421h 14m
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Learn AI
9 min read · May 25, 2026

How to Get Into AI in 2026 — The Free Starter Stack

You've got a tech background. You're curious. You've Googled "how to learn AI" and gotten lost in a sea of YouTube thumbnails. Here's the curriculum I'd actually use if I were starting from zero today, built only from free resources from Google, Anthropic, Meta, and a few others.

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AI Research

OpenAI Just Disproved a Geometry Conjecture. Both Reactions Are Wrong.

A model produced a counterexample to a long-standing open problem. Tech Twitter is split between "the singularity is here" and "it's just brute search." Both are missing what actually changed.

6 min read · May 25, 2026
Career

I've Been a Multiplier for 12 Years. Now Everyone Is.

AI doesn't kill senior engineers. It changes which kind of senior engineer the world needs. Here's what's changed in my Fortune 10 work — and what hasn't.

5 min read · May 24, 2026
Frameworks

Why I Stopped Writing Custom Eval Suites

Three years of bespoke eval frameworks taught me one thing: the eval suite that ships is the one that fits in 50 lines.

8 min read · Apr 24, 2026
Agents

Building Autonomous Agents in Regulated Industries

What it actually takes to ship an agent inside a Fortune 10 healthcare org. Compliance, audit, and the audit-of-the-audit.

12 min read · Apr 09, 2026
Career

What 12 Years in AI Taught Me About Hype Cycles

Every cycle has the same three phases. The trick is recognising which one you're in before everyone else does.

6 min read · Mar 26, 2026
Frameworks

RAG vs Tool-Use: A Decision Framework

When to retrieve, when to call. A 4-question test I run on every new agent I design.

9 min read · Mar 13, 2026
Career

How a Curiosity Problem Became a 12-Year Career in AI

The thread that ties a kid taking apart computers, an IEEE Senior Member, and a Fortune 10 architect together. Spoiler: the question never changed.

11 min read · Feb 28, 2026
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