Why Your AI is Still a Demo: Lessons from Braintrust’s Field CTO
85% of AI teams will hit a serious production failure this year. The only thing separating them from the 15% who don't? Evals.
After nearly two decades of building AI systems at Microsoft, Facebook, and Dropbox, Ameya Bhatawdekar is now Field CTO at Braintrust, the AI observability platform used by Airtable, Notion, Stripe, Dropbox, Vercel, Cloudflare, Lovable, and Replit.
We discuss a shift that most teams underestimate. The winners in AI are not just shipping faster. They are building systems that behave predictably, improve continuously, and earn user trust over time. As traditional…
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