Software Engineering
No More Small Systems, How AI May Bring Large System Problems to Everyone
Wednesday Nov 18 / 11:45AM PST
Once you figure out how to use AI to make your organization productive, you will soon find you have a whole new set of problems. While some of those problems will be novel thanks to LLMs, many of them are just the result of there being "more stuff".
Adam Bender
Technical Lead for Enterprise Engineering @Google
Avoiding Prompt Debt & Other Context Failures
Wednesday Nov 18 / 03:55PM PST
As agents evolve, prompts get unruly. Edge cases are patched with one-line hotfixes, or with stacked instructions of escalating severity when an issue proves stubborn. Over time, those instructions pile up into a brittle artifact, overfit to an aging model.
Drew Breunig
CEO & Cofounder CMPND, Editor of O'Reilly's "Context Management Handbook", Writer on AI & Data at dbreunig.com, Previously Data Science & Product Lead PlaceIQ