🦄 ai that works: Anthropic Post Mortem
🦄 ai that works
A weekly conversation about how we can all get the most juice out of todays models with @hellovai & @dexhorthy
In August, Anthropic experienced a bunch of interesting bugs and wrote up a really cool postmortem about it. On this episode, we'll go deep into the problems they hit and why they happened.
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/a-postmortem-of-three-recent-issues
Pre-reading
To prevent repeating the basics, we recommend you come in having already understanding some of the tooling we will be using:
Discord
Cursor or VS Code
Programming languages
Application Logic: Python or Typescript or Go
Prompting: BAML (recommend video)
Meet the Speaker 🧑💻
Meet Vaibhav Gupta, one of the creators of BAML and YC alum. He spent 10 years in AI performance optimization at places like Google, Microsoft, and D. E. Shaw. He loves diving deep and chatting about anything related to Gen AI and Computer Vision!
Meet Dex Horthy, founder at HumanLayer and coiner of the term Context Engineering. He spent 10+ years building devops tools at Replicated, Sprout Social and JPL. DevOps junkie turned AI Engineer.