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Ep. #91, Every Failure Becomes an Eval with Janaki Vivrekar

Ken Rimple and Jessica Kerr sit down with Janaki Vivrekar, who shares how Amplitude is building AI-powered analytics agents, why evaluation frameworks are becoming essential to AI product development, and how teams can use observability techniques to improve agent performance over time.

| June 4, 2026

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On episode 91 of o11ycast, Ken Rimple and Jessica Kerr sit down with Janaki Vivrekar of Amplitude.

Janaki shares how Amplitude is building AI-powered analytics agents, why evaluation frameworks are becoming essential to AI product development, and how teams can use observability techniques to improve agent performance over time. The conversation explores eval-driven development, production feedback loops, and the challenges of helping AI systems reason about complex business data.