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Applied AI
Applied AI
Ship the eval before you ship the assistant
Nobody notices a retrieval assistant getting worse until a customer does. We write the test set first — and we let the client grade it.
Applied AI
Streaming transcription demos well and ships badly
Why we replaced live streaming with press-and-hold on RetailDirect, and what a stairwell on 4G taught us about latency budgets.
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