https://www.infoq.com InfoQ Innovation Presentations feed https://www.infoq.com/presentations/ai-products/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Innovation-presentations <img src="https://res.infoq.com/presentations/ai-products/en/mediumimage/hilary-mason-medium-1776947360498.jpeg"/><p>Hilary Mason shares her journey from academia to building AI products at scale. She discusses the shift from discrete engineering to probabilistic mindsets, explaining why managing "human considerations" is the hardest part of the stack. She explains the "existential crisis" for engineers, arguing that great architecture today is about context management, systems thinking, and good taste.</p> <i>By Hilary Mason</i> Artificial Intelligence QCon AI 2025 Transcripts Innovation AI, ML & Data Engineering presentation Fri, 01 May 2026 09:23:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/presentations/ai-products/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Innovation-presentations Hilary Mason 2026-05-01T09:23:00Z /presentations/ai-products/en