Stop Collecting AI Shit: Hamel Husain's Core Rules for AI Evaluation
hugobowne · x · 2026-08-12
Podcast host Hugo Bowne reviewed past collaborations with recurring guest Hamel Husain, a leading voice in AI evaluation and engineering.
Hamel's consistent message over the years has been: stop blindly collecting AI tools long enough to actually look at your data and what you built.
- Face failures: Find the stupid failure cases and read your actual prompts.
- Explainability: If you can't tell why the product gave a specific answer, you can't improve it.
- Tooling vs. Value: Tools should serve the workflow; if the tooling becomes more work than the tool itself, it's a problem.
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