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Beyond “Prompt and Pray”

O'Reilly on Data

Its quick to implement and demos well. The prompt-and-pray approach is tempting because it demos well and feels fast. But the truth is that structured automation simplifies edge-case management by making LLM improvisation safe and measurable. But beneath the surface, its a patchwork of brittle improvisation and runaway costs.

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Escaping POC Purgatory: Evaluation-Driven Development for AI Systems

O'Reilly on Data

Someone hacks together a quick demo with ChatGPT and LlamaIndex. The system is inconsistent, slow, hallucinatingand that amazing demo starts collecting digital dust. Check out the graph belowsee how excitement for traditional software builds steadily while GenAI starts with a flashy demo and then hits a wall of challenges?

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Defining Simplicity for Enterprise Software as “a 10 Year Old Can Demo it”

Cloudera

During the development of Operational Database and Replication Manager, I kept telling folks across the team it has to be “so simple that a 10 year old can demo it”. so simple that a 10 year old can demo it”. Watch this: Enterprise Software that is so easy a 10 year old can demo it. When is the said progress sufficient?

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AWS Clean Rooms proof of concept scoping part 1: media measurement

AWS Big Data

In this post, we outline planning a POC to measure media effectiveness in a paid advertising campaign. We chose to start this series with media measurement because “Results & Measurement” was the top ranked use case for data collaboration by customers in a recent survey the AWS Clean Rooms team conducted. and CTV.Co

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What you need to know about product management for AI

O'Reilly on Data

Measurement, tracking, and logging is less of a priority in enterprise software. Many consumer internet companies invest heavily in analytics infrastructure, instrumenting their online product experience to measure and improve user retention. Having something you can demo takes some of the pressure off your machine learning team.

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Improved CPU throttling measurement

IBM Big Data Hub

In this new post, we are going to talk about a significant improvement in the way that we measure the level of throttling. With such a measurement, throttling was underestimated for applications with a low CPU limit and overestimated for those with a high CPU limit. There is a significant bias with this measurement.

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KPI Management And Best Practices: How To Find The Perfect KPI Solutions?

datapine

The process helps businesses and decision-makers measure the success of their strategies toward achieving company goals. How does Company A measure the success of each individual effort so that it can isolate strengths and weaknesses? Key performance indicators enable businesses to measure their own ability to set and achieve goals.

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