Why Your AI is Still a Demo: Lessons from Braintrust’s Field CTO

Why Your AI is Still a Demo: Lessons from Braintrust’s Field CTO

May 15, 2026 · 47 min · Season 1 · Episode 370

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The episode discusses the challenges AI teams face in production and insights from Ameya Bhatawdekar on improving performance.

85% of AI teams will hit a serious production failure this year. The only thing separating them from the 15% who don't? Evals. After nearly two decades of building AI systems at Microsoft, Facebook, and Dropbox, Ameya Bhatawdekar is now Field CTO at Braintrust, the AI observability platform used by Airtable, Notion, Stripe, Dropbox, Vercel, Cloudflare, Lovable, and Replit. We discuss a shift that most teams underestimate. The winners in AI are not just shipping faster. They are building syste...

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