Rishi

Shallow Evals and How to Make Them Right

I am coming back from Trace, Braintrust's flagship event at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. There is a big question I have been sitting with as I work with evals, and the conversations at Trace sharpened it even further. The question is this: WHO is

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Opus 4.5, vague inputs and empathy + evals

Let me start by saying, holy shit. I love this. Opus 4.5 launched, and I had 30 minutes to myself in a cafe while a friend stepped out. I grabbed my iPad, installed Claude, installed Claude on Chrome (which I couldn't quite get working), and just started

Why Empathy and Evals

I can't believe how many of you asked me this. Genuinely didn't see that coming. So here's the story. A few years ago, my friend Dash asked me a simple question: “What’s your superpower?” I had no idea. I stumbled through the conversation,

Why Am I Doing This?

I live at the intersection of storytelling, art, design, and technology. I have spent years building products, making sense of the unknown, and learning how to read a room before I build for it. That last part matters more than people think. This is a unique time to be alive.

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Empathy and Evals

Thinking out loud about AI evaluation, product thinking, and learning in public.

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