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  • How Search and AI Product Teams are Different

    calendar Feb 3, 2026 · 7 min read · management search ai software-engineering  ·
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    Engineering leadership knows the standard playbook for product teams: the Product Trio, the Spotify model, outcome-based roadmaps, and so on. I've seen teams adopt these practices and still struggle when they add responsibility for advanced algorithms -- search, recommendations, predictive modeling, or generative AI -- …


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  • Insights from a Predictive Model Pipeline Abstraction

    calendar Nov 7, 2016 · 5 min read · data science machine learning software engineering software architecture programming  ·
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    This post was originally published on Medium When building a complex system, it’s often helpful to think about the design of that system using patterns and abstractions. Architects and software engineers do so frequently, and the experience of implementing predictive modeling pipelines has recently led to a variety of …


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  • Patterns for Connecting Predictive Models to Software Products

    calendar Jul 12, 2016 · 9 min read · machine learning data science software engineering R  ·
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    This post was originally published on Medium You’re a data scientist, and you’ve got a predictive model — great work! Now what? In many cases, you need to hook it up to some sort of large, complex software product so that users can get access to the predictions. Think of LinkedIn’s People You May Know, which mines your …


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Featured Posts

  • IZE - Revisiting a hierarchical search technology from the PC era
  • How Search and AI Product Teams are Different
  • Post Query Refinement Suggestions in Search UX, and an Algolia Demo App
  • Use LLMs for Translation and Fallible Reasoning
  • Vibe-Coding the Missing Algolia Comparison Dashboard
  • AI-Assisted Coding, Side Projects, and Donationware
  • A Collaborative Template for A/B Tests
  • Are LLMs a simple solution? And if so, for what problems?

Recent Posts

  • How IZE Really Worked - Algorithm, Patent, Limits, and Esther Dyson
  • IZE - Revisiting a hierarchical search technology from the PC era
  • 11 Algolia A/B Testing Gotchas, Tips, and Lessons!!
  • How Search and AI Product Teams are Different
  • Defensible Use of AI in Writing (Like This)
  • Post Query Refinement Suggestions in Search UX, and an Algolia Demo App
  • Use LLMs for Translation and Fallible Reasoning
  • Vibe-Coding the Missing Algolia Comparison Dashboard

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