Ankur Goyal

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How I AI · How Braintrust uses AI agents, evals, and CI to ship better software | Ankur Goyal · 15 Jun 2026 podcast

I so viscerally disagree with it.

There's no staff engineer who is running as many rigorous benchmarks and trying out different algorithms and analyzing ideas manually than someone who's using an agent.

Everyone should take a hard look in the mirror and reevaluate how they spend their time.

There's a lot of interactions that you have or direction that you're giving or decisions that you're making.

And I think like many of these things to me fit below the agent line.

I think the agent line keeps going up.

Now that models are so good at actually writing code, one of the best things that we can do is create really hard evals.

And if you create the right tests and success criteria for a model, then it can be really creative and it can work on this stuff in the background and actually try to improve a bunch of things.

We're able to have David's palette applied to more things.

I think the quality bar that we're able to hit is higher because we're able to get more things to that bar.

I'm super excited to be here.

Thanks for having me.

You know, I spend a lot of time working on software for doing evals and observability, and that's kind of shaped my own perspective about software engineering.

Like now that models are so good at actually writing code, one of the best things that we can do is create really hard evals.

And I'm not talking about like AI evals.

I mean things like, why is this query so slow?

And if you create the right tests and success criteria for a model, then it can be really creative and it can work on this stuff in the background and actually try to improve a bunch of things.

So one of the things that I spend a lot of time on right now is making the queries that people run in our product faster.

And people can just write arbitrary queries.

There's an example.

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