--- schema: 1 type: video title: >- "The biggest challenge in your stack? Evals, Evals, Evals" - 2026 State of AI Engineering results description: >- Barr Yaron shares her perspective on the results and emerging state of AI engineering in 2026. Speaker: Barr Yaron — Partner, Amplify Partners Barr backs founders building the AI infrastructure and applications that will shape the future. Links: X: https://x.com/barrnanas LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/barryaron Website: https://barrchives.com Timestamps 0:00 Introduction and Survey Context 2:26 The AI Engineering Workforce 3:21 Current Modalities and Adoption 5:34 Model Strategy: Closed vs. Open-Weight 8:20 Cost as an Engineering Constraint 9:36 The Rise of Agentic Workflows 11:57 Infrastructure Challenges and Evals 12:53 The Build vs. Buy Trade-off 14:09 Impact on Engineering Culture and Teams 16:27 Future Bets and Predictions Quotes: "The median new engineer has nearly as much AI experience as the median 10-year software veteran." (3:07) "Cost is now a first-class engineering constraint." (8:38) "Agents are no longer reading, summarizing, drafting—they’re taking actions inside of systems." (10:58) "The biggest challenge in your stack? Every single year, the number one answer is eval." (12:12) "Shipping software is not gated on being an engineer anymore." (16:17) --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/RGe6EjucbzI-the-2026-state-of-ai-engineering-barr-yaron-amplify-partners Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): - AIEi Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs and engineers - AIE CODE in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference returns - AIEi Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney --- canonical: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/RGe6EjucbzI' markdown: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/RGe6EjucbzI.md' llms: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/RGe6EjucbzI/llms.txt' parent: 'https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer.md' channel: aidotengineer updated: '2026-10-24T06:55:34.078Z' language: null children: [] videoId: RGe6EjucbzI durationSeconds: 1187 publishedAt: '2026-07-21T16:11:29.000Z' searchChunks: - ordinal: 0 text: null startSeconds: 37 endSeconds: 149 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/RGe6EjucbzI?t=37' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 1 text: null startSeconds: 159 endSeconds: 203 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/RGe6EjucbzI?t=159' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 2 text: null startSeconds: 214 endSeconds: 339 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/RGe6EjucbzI?t=214' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 3 text: null startSeconds: 214 endSeconds: 339 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/RGe6EjucbzI?t=214' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 4 text: null startSeconds: 214 endSeconds: 339 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/RGe6EjucbzI?t=214' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 5 text: null startSeconds: 350 endSeconds: 505 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/RGe6EjucbzI?t=350' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 6 text: null startSeconds: 350 endSeconds: 505 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/RGe6EjucbzI?t=350' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 7 text: null startSeconds: 350 endSeconds: 505 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/RGe6EjucbzI?t=350' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 8 text: null startSeconds: 516 endSeconds: 576 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/RGe6EjucbzI?t=516' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 9 text: null startSeconds: 516 endSeconds: 576 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/RGe6EjucbzI?t=516' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 10 text: null startSeconds: 586 endSeconds: 725 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/RGe6EjucbzI?t=586' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 11 text: null startSeconds: 586 endSeconds: 725 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/RGe6EjucbzI?t=586' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 12 text: null startSeconds: 586 endSeconds: 725 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/RGe6EjucbzI?t=586' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 13 text: null startSeconds: 736 endSeconds: 781 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/RGe6EjucbzI?t=736' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 14 text: null startSeconds: 791 endSeconds: 850 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/RGe6EjucbzI?t=791' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 15 text: null startSeconds: 791 endSeconds: 850 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/RGe6EjucbzI?t=791' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 16 text: null startSeconds: 860 endSeconds: 989 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/RGe6EjucbzI?t=860' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 17 text: null startSeconds: 860 endSeconds: 989 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/RGe6EjucbzI?t=860' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 18 text: null startSeconds: 1003 endSeconds: 1187 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/RGe6EjucbzI?t=1003' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 19 text: null startSeconds: 1003 endSeconds: 1187 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/RGe6EjucbzI?t=1003' heldReason: rights --- # "The biggest challenge in your stack? Evals, Evals, Evals" - 2026 State of AI Engineering results Barr Yaron shares her perspective on the results and emerging state of AI engineering in 2026. Speaker: Barr Yaron — Partner, Amplify Partners Barr backs founders building the AI infrastructure and applications that will shape the future. Links: X: https://x.com/barrnanas LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/barryaron Website: https://barrchives.com Timestamps 0:00 Introduction and Survey Context 2:26 The AI Engineering Workforce 3:21 Current Modalities and Adoption 5:34 Model Strategy: Closed vs. Open-Weight 8:20 Cost as an Engineering Constraint 9:36 The Rise of Agentic Workflows 11:57 Infrastructure Challenges and Evals 12:53 The Build vs. Buy Trade-off 14:09 Impact on Engineering Culture and Teams 16:27 Future Bets and Predictions Quotes: "The median new engineer has nearly as much AI experience as the median 10-year software veteran." (3:07) "Cost is now a first-class engineering constraint." (8:38) "Agents are no longer reading, summarizing, drafting—they’re taking actions inside of systems." (10:58) "The biggest challenge in your stack? Every single year, the number one answer is eval." (12:12) "Shipping software is not gated on being an engineer anymore." 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