How to Work with Databricks - Step by Step

Databricks co-founder and CTO Matei Zaharia on the gap between AI demos and production reality: “It’s very easy to get a demo that works 50% of the time and think you’ve solved the problem. Getting something that’s highly reliable and diligent in production is much harder.” In this conversation with Josue “Josh” Bogran, they discuss: - What LLMs are actually reliable at today - Why polished demos often fail in real production systems - The role of feedback loops, evaluation, and human verificati