In this episode, Demetrios interviews Paul van der Boor and Bruce, who discuss the build versus buy approach to AI tooling within Prosus. Paul emphasizes the importance of generating evaluation sets and product feedback loops, even more so than the specific tools used, and shares how Prosus encourages teams to buy tools to save time and focus on core objectives, while also exploring potential investment opportunities in promising tools. Bruce elaborates on their experiences building Tokon, an agent platform, and the challenges they've faced in adopting external tools for prompting, evaluation, orchestration, and observability due to concerns around data privacy, reliability, and the need for deeper control and customization, particularly when working with Go instead of Python. They also discuss the use of coding tools like Cursor and Devin, and how these tools are influencing their approach to building in-house solutions.
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