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The rise of Agentic Shopping
Earlier this year Google released shopping features as part of its new AI Mode, with Google enabling AI agents to spot the best deal for a specific product and complete the checkout for the user. This is just one example of the early rise of “Agentic Shopping” – AI agents that aren’t just recommending products…
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“The Systems Leader” (Book Review)
In “The Systems Leader”, management lecturer Robert E. Siegel writes about the uncertain landscape in which today’s leaders operate, having to manage many conflicting tensions. System Leadership is about mastering five cross-pressures: The main point of “The Systems Leader” is that today’s leaders need to be good at fitting all the different pieces together to…
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How to write effective evals
We talk a lot about vibe coding, being able to build out product ideas quickly. However, when we deploy products built on existing AI models, we need to ensure the AI’s quality is high, consistent and scalable. Evals provide us with a system to measure quality at scale. Best to start with manual evaluations, which…
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What is Context Engineering in AI?
A few months ago, Shopify’s CEO Tobi Lütke tweeted about “context engineering” – a concept that’s reshaping how we think about AI interactions. We’re all familiar with prompt engineering, where crafting the right input determines your AI output quality. But what happens when your perfectly designed prompt still misses the mark because the AI lacks…
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Building a travel assistant in Bolt
I wanted to create a first iteration of a travel assistant. People increasingly use ChatGPT to create their travel itineraries, and I was curious about what an app could look like that combines both human-curated and AI-generated travel suggestions. First, I took my crude product idea and turned it into a PRD. In Bolt, I…
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