What's Actually Behind the AI Evaluation Hype?
What's behind the AI evaluation obsession? Over the last few months, I noticed something strange. Every AI paper I opened, every conference talk I watched, every product launch I followed - they all kept circling back to the same word: AI evaluations. Not training. Not fine-tuning. Not even prompting. Evaluations!! At first, I dismissed it as another benchmark fatigue - another leaderboard war. But this wasn't about 'measuring' models better. It was about 'teaching' them dif
Ashish Arora
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Stop Chunking Your CSVs: How I Built an AI That Reads Spreadsheets Like a Human
Last week, I walked into a meeting that started with what seemed like a simple question. "We've got PDF ingestion working great. How do we solve for CSVs and spreadsheets?" The room went quiet. You know that silence - the one where everyone's mentally calculating how much work just landed on the table? That was it. See, here's the thing. Chunking PDFs and text files into a RAG pipeline? That's pretty neat at this point. It's almost a solved problem. You split the document, ge
Ashish Arora
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