AI and Taste

Julie Zhuo@jouleeTaste is invisible until you try to write it down. This is probably my biggest lesson with AI building as of late. At @TeamSundial, I get to work with really friggin' amazing analysts who know the art, and I see how much of our collective time now is now spent turning that art s for an LLM. Encoding things like: "How would a great analyst actually look at this metric move?" or "What is ACTUALLY the interesting signal in this story versus noise?" or "How can we know if a product change actually moved the needle?" It's really humbling work! You write an instruction set. The LLM misses. You add more context. It still misses. You add even more. Now it's confused. You strip it back. Now it's too vague. You try a different framing. Better, but inconsistent.

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