Chip Huyen works at the intersection of AI, education, and storytelling. Previously, she was with Snorkel AI and NVIDIA, founded an AI infrastructure startup (acquired), and taught Machine Learning Systems Design at Stanford.
She was a core developer of NeMo, NVIDIA’s generative AI framework.
Her first English book, Designing Machine Learning Systems (2022), is an Amazon bestseller in AI and has been translated into 10+ languages. Her new book, AI Engineering (2025), has been the most-read book on the O’Reilly platform since its launch.
While we still don’t yet know all the best practices for building applications with generative AI, we do know many practices that don’t work. This talk first discusses how building with foundation models differs from traditional ML, and where it stands with product and full-stack engineering. It then discusses different anti-patterns throughout the developmental cycle....