Sep 01, 2026

Why Your Agent Evals Are Missing the Real Failures (with Aishwarya Srinivasan)

Aishwarya Srinivasan, co-founder of The Gen Academy, discusses the shift in AI and software engineering, highlighting how "cheap code" necessitates strong engineering judgment and a "whole-system eval" approach for agentic AI. She explains the resurgence of reinforcement learning for fine-tuning, the evolution from prompt to loop engineering, and introduces her MIND framework for living with AI. Srinivasan emphasizes experimentation as the most critical career skill and offers insights into what differentiates successful AI startups in today's competitive landscape.

Aug 24, 2025

Inside the little-known expert network quietly training every frontier AI model | Garrett Lord

Garrett Lord, CEO of Handshake, details the company's extraordinary pivot from a college career network to a dominant AI data provider. He explains how they leveraged their proprietary network of 500,000 PhDs and 3 million advanced degree holders to build a business on track to surpass $100 million ARR in its first year by providing high-quality, expert-generated data for training frontier AI models.