MLOps Coffee Sessions #161 with Tuhin Srivastava, The Long Tail of ML Deployment co-hosted by Abi Aryan. This episode is brought to you by QuantumBlack.

// Abstract
Baseten is an engineer-first platform designed to alleviate the engineering burden for machine learning and data engineers. Tuhin's perspective, based on research with Stanford students, emphasizes the importance of engineers embracing the engineering aspects and considering them from a reproductive perspective.

// Bio
Tuhin Srivastava is the co-founder and CEO of Baseten. Tuhin has spent the better part of the last decade building machine learning-powered products and is currently working on empowering engineers to build production-grade services with machine learning.

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QuantumBlack: https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/quantumblack/contact-us
Baseten: https://www.baseten.co/
Baseten Careers: https://www.baseten.co/careers



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Timestamps:
[00:00] Partnership with QuantumBlack
[00:16] Nayur Khan presenting QuantumBlack
[03:35] QuantumBlack is hiring!
[03:47] Tuhin's preferred coffee
[05:03] Takeaways
[07:00] Please share this episode with a friend!
[07:12] Comments/Reviews
[08:49] Tuhin's background
[10:13] Finance and Law common complaint culture
[11:40] Doing Machine Learning in 2010 - 2011
[14:31] Gum broad or the next company shape?
[16:33] Engineers need to learn machine learning
[20:18] Software engineers need to dig deeper
[24:49] Cambrian Explosion
[27:53] The Holy Trifecta
[28:54] Objective truth and prompting
[31:23] Limitations of LLMs
[35:37] Documentation challenges
[38:25] Baseten creating valuable models
[40:37] Advocate for Microservices or API-based solution
[42:54] Learning Git pains
[44:16] Baseten back ups
[48:00] Baseten is hiring!
[49:32] Wrap up