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Upcoming Features and Team Expansion at XMagic
This chapter outlines the upcoming features for XMagic, particularly the magic analysis tool designed to improve user experience. It also highlights the company's plans for team expansion and resources for learning about modern recommendation systems.
In this episode of Building With AI, host Haroon Choudery is joined by Bryan Bischof, the AI lead at Hex. Bryan joined the Hex Magic team in 2023, leveraging his insights to improve data science workflows through LLM integrations.
During the conversation, they discuss:
Bonus: Bryan reveals the questions he asks candidates during interviews...and guess what? Hex is currently on the lookout for fresh talent! So keep your đź‘€ peeled!
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[00:00] Up next:
[00:08] Episode introduction
[00:55] Autoblocks: AI Optimization Platform
[01:48] Bryan’s introduction
[06:47] The Hex way of approaching jobs to be done
[10:34] To blank slate or not to blank slate
[11:32] How Hex prioritizes different pain points
[15:37] Challenges of building Hex: chain reactions, entropy, and latency issues
[19:04] How to build accurate and reliable agents
[22:27] The solution to evals
[26:33] How to build powerful evals
[31:46] Why Bryan is over synthetic data
[35:48] Bryan's three stage recommender system
[44:35] The role of data managers
[46:27] Retrieval techniques that don't work
[47:57] The team behind Hex Magic
[50:04] Hex vs. Jupyter
[51:41] Hex's game-changing metrics for AI performance
[54:39] The nuances of developing AI products
[01:00:40] Hex's future projects
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Building with AI is a weekly podcast featuring conversations with top AI product builders and leaders. Through thoughtful dialogue, host Haroon Choudery (CEO of Autoblocks) uncovers tactical insights that help listeners build & scale world-class AI products.
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