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Hamel Husain

Machine learning engineer and independent consultant, AI evals

Every podcast episode featuring Hamel Husain that Attunex has found: 32 interviews and appearances across 20 shows between 2019 and 2026. Most often on Vanishing Gradients (9), Self Aligned by Robert Ta (2) and The Growth Podcast (2). Often in conversation with Sam Charrington. Follow Hamel in Attunex to get new appearances automatically, each with an on-device transcript and summary.

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Updated 2026-10-14.

  1. Cursor Just Showed How Much You’re Wasting On AI
    Self Aligned by Robert Ta

    Join the Clarity open source harness waitlist: https://heyclarity.dev/ Build AI that actually works: https://heyclarity.dev/ Self Aligned Newsletter: https://www.selfaligned.me/ Cursor rebuilt SQLite…

    2026-10-12
  2. Tunguz swaps LLM calls for decision models, accuracy jumps to 80% - Tustin AI Daily Briefing, Sep 22
    Tustin AI Daily BriefingMentioned

    Stories in today's episode — tap a headline to read the full piece: Tunguz replaced a quarter of his agent's LLM calls with "decision models" — accuracy nearly doubled from 47% to 80%+ at roughly…

    2026-09-22
  3. The Rise of the AI Scientist
    Vanishing GradientsMentioned

    “If you feel that a product is hard to eval, or you feel like, ‘I don’t even know how to eval this,’ it’s a strong smell that your product isn’t good.” — Hamel Husain, on AI product design An AI data…

    2026-09-04
  4. How to Run Evals in Claude Code with Aparna Dhinakaran, Founder and CPO of Arize
    The Growth PodcastMentioned

    Today’s episode Many of the smartest AI teams I know are running their evals on Arize. Teams at Uber, Booking.com, Pepsi, and others. It’s become one of the most important skills for PMs. I already…

    2026-05-22
  5. EP50|AI产品成败关键:如何评估AI产品表现
    硅谷声研所AI

    本期播客翻译自 Lenny‘s Podcast 💬 讨论内容简介 本期节目深入探讨了构建优秀AI产品的核心技能—— 评估(Evals) 。 两位嘉宾指出,评估远不只是写测试用例,而是一套系统化的方法,帮助团队从数据中发现问题、量化表现、持续迭代产品。…

    2026-03-23
  6. How to Do AI Evals Step-by-Step with Real Production Data | Tutorial by Hamel Husain and Shreya Shankar
    The Growth Podcast

    Today’s Episode Everyone’s demoing AI features. Few are shipping them to production reliably. The gap? Evals. Not the theoretical kind. The real-world kind that catches bugs before users do. Hamel…

    2026-01-15
  7. #265. AI评估:构建卓越AI产品的核心技能与实战指南
    跨国串门儿计划AI

    📝 本期播客简介 本期我们克隆了知名播客《Lenny's Podcast》中关于AI评估(Evals)的深度探讨。主持人Lenny邀请到Hamel Husain和Shreya…

    2025-10-18
  8. Evals, error analysis, and better prompts: A systematic approach to improving your AI products | Hamel Husain (ML engineer)
    How I AI

    Hamel Husain, an AI consultant and educator, shares his systematic approach to improving AI product quality through error analysis, evaluation frameworks, and prompt engineering. In this episode, he…

    2025-10-13
  9. Building AI Products Right
    Self Aligned by Robert Ta

    What if the biggest mistake in AI development isn’t what you’re building—but how you’re measuring it? In this episode of ABCs for Building the Future, host Robert sits down with Hamel Husain —…

    2025-10-13
  10. Debugging AI Products: From Data Leakage to Evals with Hamel Husain
    Just Now Possible

    How do you know if your AI product is actually any good? Hamel Husain has been answering that question for over 25 years. As a former machine learning engineer and data scientist at Airbnb and GitHub…

    2025-10-02
  11. Episode 60: 10 Things I Hate About AI Evals with Hamel Husain
    Vanishing Gradients

    Most AI teams find "evals" frustrating, but ML Engineer Hamel Husain argues they’re just using the wrong playbook. In this episode, he lays out a data-centric approach to systematically measure and…

    2025-09-30
  12. AI Evaluations Crash Course in 50 Minutes (2025) | Hamel Husain
    Behind the Craft

    Today, I want to share a new episode with Hamel Husain. Hamel has trained 2,000+ PMs and engineers from companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google on how to run AI evals. In my new episode, he…

    2025-09-28
  13. Why AI evals are the hottest new skill for product builders | Hamel Husain & Shreya Shankar (creators of the #1 eval course)
    mbanerjeepalmer+listennotes 's Listen Later

    Podcast : Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : Why AI evals are the hottest new skill for product builders | Hamel Husain & Shreya Shankar (creators…

    2025-09-27
  14. Why AI evals are the hottest new skill for product builders | Hamel Husain & Shreya Shankar (creators of the #1 eval course)
    Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

    Hamel Husain and Shreya Shankar teach the world’s most popular course on AI evals and have trained over 2,000 PMs and engineers (including many teams at OpenAI and Anthropic). In this conversation,…

    2025-09-25
  15. Listen: Building eval systems that improve your AI product
    Lenny's Reads

    If you’re a premium subscriber, add the private feed to your podcast app at https://add.lennysreads.com In this episode, we dive into the fast-emerging discipline of AI evaluation with Hamel Husain…

    2025-09-09
  16. Getting Beyond the Demo with Hamel Husain
    Generative AI in the Real World

    In this episode, Ben Lorica and Hamel Husain talk about how to take the next steps with artificial intelligence. Developers don’t need to build their own models—but they do need basic data skills.…

    2025-09-04
  17. Mindset Over Metrics: How to Approach AI Engineering | Hamel Husain
    Chain of Thought | AI Agents, Infrastructure & Engineering

    As we enter the era of the AI engineer, the biggest challenge isn't technical - it's a shift in mindset. Hamel Husain, a leading AI consultant and luminary in the eval space, joins the podcast to…

    2025-08-20
  18. The PM’s Role in AI Evals: Step-by-Step
    The Growth Podcast

    Today, we’ve got some of our most requested guests yet: Hamel Husain and Shreya Shankar, creators of the world’s best AI Evals cohort. You’ll learn: - Why AI evaluations are the most critical skill…

    2025-07-11
  19. Episode 50: A Field Guide to Rapidly Improving AI Products -- With Hamel Husain
    Vanishing Gradients

    If we want AI systems that actually work, we need to get much better at evaluating them, not just building more pipelines, agents, and frameworks. In this episode, Hugo talks with Hamel Hussain…

    2025-06-17
  20. Beyond the Demo: Building AI Systems That Actually Work
    The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica

    Hamel Husain is the founder of Parlance Labs. He discusses how successful AI implementation requires fundamental data science skills often overlooked in current educational resources that focus too…

    2025-05-01
  21. Ep. #79, AI and Otel: Look at your Data with Hamel Husain
    Heavybit Podcasts

    In episode 79 of o11ycast, Hamel Husain joins the o11ycast crew to discuss the challenges of monitoring AI systems, why off-the-shelf metrics can be misleading, and how error analysis is the key to…

    2025-03-18
  22. Episode 45: Your AI application is broken. Here’s what to do about it.
    Vanishing Gradients

    Too many teams are building AI applications without truly understanding why their models fail. Instead of jumping straight to LLM evaluations, dashboards, or vibe checks, how do you actually fix a…

    2025-02-20
  23. Episode 33: What We Learned Teaching LLMs to 1,000s of Data Scientists
    Vanishing Gradients

    Hugo speaks with Dan Becker and Hamel Husain, two veterans in the world of data science, machine learning, and AI education. Collectively, they’ve worked at Google, DataRobot, Airbnb, Github (where…

    2024-08-12
  24. Building Real-World LLM Products with Fine-Tuning and More with Hamel Husain
    The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)

    Today, we're joined by Hamel Husain, founder of Parlance Labs, to discuss the ins and outs of building real-world products using large language models (LLMs). We kick things off discussing novel…

    2024-07-23
  25. Episode 30: Lessons from a Year of Building with LLMs (Part 2)
    Vanishing Gradients

    Hugo speaks about Lessons Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs with Eugene Yan from Amazon, Bryan Bischof from Hex, Charles Frye from Modal, Hamel Husain from Parlance Labs, and Shreya Shankar…

    2024-06-26
  26. Episode 29: Lessons from a Year of Building with LLMs (Part 1)
    Vanishing Gradients

    Hugo speaks about Lessons Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs with Eugene Yan from Amazon, Bryan Bischof from Hex, Charles Frye from Modal, Hamel Husain from Parlance Labs, and Shreya Shankar…

    2024-06-26
  27. Episode 22: LLMs, OpenAI, and the Existential Crisis for Machine Learning Engineering
    Vanishing Gradients

    Jeremy Howard (Fast.ai), Shreya Shankar (UC Berkeley), and Hamel Husain (Parlance Labs) join Hugo Bowne-Anderson to talk about how LLMs and OpenAI are changing the worlds of data science, machine…

    2023-11-27
  28. Episode 21: Deploying LLMs in Production: Lessons Learned
    Vanishing Gradients

    Hugo speaks with Hamel Husain, a machine learning engineer who loves building machine learning infrastructure and tools 👷. Hamel leads and contributes to many popular open-source machine learning…

    2023-11-14
  29. 🤖 GPTs & Large Language Models in production with Hamel Husain
    The MLOps Podcast

    In this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Hamel Husain. Hamel is a machine learning and MLOps extraordinaire, he was one of the core maintainers of Fast.ai and has worked on ML and MLOps…

    2023-06-20
  30. 9: AutoML, Literate Programming, and Data Tooling Cargo Cults
    Vanishing Gradients

    Hugo speaks with Hamel Husain, Head of Data Science at Outerbounds, with extensive experience in data science consulting, at DataRobot, Airbnb, and Github. In this conversation, they talk about…

    2022-07-19
  31. Exploring the FastAI Tooling Ecosystem with Hamel Husain
    The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)

    Today we’re joined by Hamel Husain, Staff Machine Learning Engineer at GitHub. Over the last few years, Hamel has had the opportunity to work on some of the most popular open source projects in the…

    2021-11-01
  32. Deploying Machine Learning Models Safely and Systematically
    The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica

    This week’s guest is Hamel Husain, Staff Machine Learning Engineer at GitHub and a core developer for fastai. Prior to GitHub, Hamel worked on machine learning applications and systems at Airbnb and…

    2021-10-14
  33. Exploring Literate Programming For Python Projects With nbdev
    The Python Podcast.__init__

    Summary Creating well designed software is largely a problem of context and understanding. The majority of programming environments rely on documentation, tests, and code being logically separated…

    2021-02-02
  34. Machine Learning Ops
    Rasa Chats

    In today's episode, technical evangelist Mady Mantha is joined by Hamel Husain, a staff machine learning engineer at GitHub. Join in to learn about machine learning ops and how you can use it to make…

    2020-10-07
  35. Hamel Husain — Building Machine Learning Tools
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Hamel Husain is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Github. He has extensive experience building data analytics and predictive modeling solutions for a wide range of industries, including:…

    2020-06-24
  36. Hamel Husain | Fastpages, Open Source | ML at Github | fastai
    Chai Time Data Science

    Video Version: https://youtu.be/-pYMXSThpvc Subscribe here to the newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/sanyambhutani In this episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews, Hamel Husain, who's currently a staff ML…

    2020-05-10
  37. Semantic search at Github
    Data Skeptic

    Github is many things besides source control. It's a social network, even though not everyone realizes it. It's a vast repository of code. It's a ticketing and project management system. And of…

    2019-01-11