Buy Now, Maybe Pay Later: Dealing with Prompt-Tax While Staying at the Frontier - Andrew Thomspson
This talk addresses the challenges of building and shipping AI agentic products at the cutting edge of model development. It introduces the concept of "prompt tax," which refers to the unintended consequences and risks associated with integrating rapidly advancing AI models into applications. The core thesis is that to maximize opportunities from new AI capabilities, developers must ship products quickly, embracing the inherent uncertainties and managing them through iterative feedback and progressive rollout strategies.
World's Fair 2025 25 min