Why your AI product needs a different development lifecycle

In this episode of Lenny's Reads, Lenny narrates a post by Aishwarya Reganti and Kiriti Badam about the Continuous Calibration and Continuous Development (CCCD) framework for building AI products. The framework addresses the challenges of non-determinism and the agency-control tradeoff inherent in AI systems, which differ from traditional software development. The post outlines the six phases of the CCCD framework: scoping capability and curating data, setting up the application, designing evals, running evals, analyzing behavior and spotting patterns, and applying fixes. It emphasizes starting with small, high-control, low-agency capabilities and gradually increasing agency as the system proves itself, using real-world examples to illustrate the concepts.