Vanishing Gradients
Articles about Vanishing Gradients
The Science and Engineering of Agent Work
Hilary Mason, Eric Ma, Bryan Bischof, and Tomasz Tunguz on experimentation, creative evals, agentic data science, and local agent
How I Built a Media Empire With an Agentic Software Factory
Building an AI production team to help run Vanishing Gradients, automate podcast production and get more done.
Claude’s fraud detector looked excellent. It leaked the answer
Build, check, and ship with Eleanor and me. Plus: coding agents with Nico and a playbook for catching data science failures.
The State of Agentic Data Science
What to Delegate, How to Verify
Agentic Data Science: Specify the Work, Verify the Claim
How to build and direct data science agents, and make each investigation improve the next.
Does Your AI Agent Actually Work? A Guide to Evals
Define success, diagnose failures, and build an eval harness that tells you whether your changes actually help.
The 6 Most Common AI Agent Mistakes
When to use an agent, how to choose a framework, and how to build guardrails, evaluate results, and roll out safely.
How to Build a Coding Agent with Nico (Amp Code)
The core loop, harness engineering, and getting more from the agents you use