Lenny’s Podcast102 min
Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix)
Chip Huyen · Oct 23, 2025
Key learnings
- Focus on what actually improves AI apps, such as talking to users, improving data, writing better prompts, and optimizing…
- Be cautious about committing to newly released technologies that have not been widely tested, since switching away from them…
- Fine-tuning and post-training can shape model behavior a lot, and many teams now focus effort there because base pre-training…