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AI EngineerHow a Hedge Fund Measures AI ROI Without Waiting for P&L
A hedge fund's Head of AI shares how they AB test AI workflows and measure cost per useful insight—a practical model for proving AI ROI when P&L impact is…
AI EngineerModel Choice Barely Matters: Fix Engineering Culture, Not AI Tools
AI model choice explains under 1% of developer output variance, per Jellyfish's 50,000-engineer dataset. The levers leaders control matter more.
Weights & BiasesHuman behavior simulation is close to usable, but check the 85% claim
Simulated users predicting behavior at 85% accuracy could change product testing, but the claim is vendor-generated and the ceiling is too convenient.
AI EngineerStop evaluating models. Start evaluating the risk around them.
1,368 AI failures later: deployment controls, not model quality, determine real-world harm. Failure-driven evals follow. No production proof yet.
AI EngineerTesting AI Agents: Plant the Defect, Then Find It
No benchmark for your AI agent? Air Canada generated 275 contracts with planted violations, cut expert grading from weekly to daily, and warns against LLM…
AI EngineerCheap models beat frontier models at writing like a human
Tone-Bench tests whether AI models can write like one specific human. Its most practical lesson: cheaper models with long prompts may beat frontier models on…
Cole MedinAI Boosts Output but Destroys Developer Focus. What Now?
AI tools turbocharge output but fragment developer attention. One builder's experiment with a 'software factory' to reclaim focus—and why the fix may not scale.
AI EngineerCode Quality Has a Simple Answer: It Depends on Disposability
A practical framework for deciding when code quality matters: disposable software needs none, durable software needs all. The real work is making rigor cheap.
The Pragmatic EngineerThe CTO path now runs through shipping code, not managing process
Will Larson on why middle managers must reskill into technical work, and why line managers may be the better future CTOs.
AI EngineerMake legacy code AI-queryable: Vanguard's 7-day research loop became 15 minutes.
Vanguard cut legacy research from 7 days to 15 minutes by making its mainframe code queryable through MCP. The real lesson is governance.
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