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Hugo Bowne-Anderson is an independent data and AI consultant with extensive experience in the tech industry. He is the host of Vanishing Gradients and High Signal podcasts, exploring developments in data science and AI. Previously, Hugo served as Head of Developer Relations at Outerbounds and held roles at Coiled and DataCamp, where his work in data science education reached over 3 million learners. He has taught at Yale University, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and conferences like SciPy and PyCon, and is a passionate advocate for democratizing data skills and open-source tools. He also regularly teaches courses on Building LLM Applications for Data Scientists and Software Engineers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Too many AI projects stall out in proof-of-concept purgatory \u2014 impressive demos that never become reliable products. In this session, we\u2019ll explore how to escape that trap through Evaluation-Driven Development: an approach that puts evaluation at the core of building AI and LLM applications. You\u2019ll learn how to bootstrap evaluation frameworks even before real users arrive \u2014 from generating synthetic user queries and manually labeling outputs to using LLMs as judges, building evaluation harnesses, and introducing lightweight observability to track accuracy, cost, and latency. Evaluation-Driven Development isn\u2019t an optional add-on \u2014 it\u2019s the foundation for shipping AI systems that work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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