What are tiger teams in AI engineering?

Cross-functional squads blending software rigor and data uncertainty to ship agentic apps.

How do custom evals beat generic benchmarks for AI agents?

They test against your unique data and domain, catching real-world fails generics miss.

Is Mastra the best open source framework for AI agents?

Promising JS/TS option from Gatsby vets, but watch community traction.

AI Engineering's Breakneck Pace: Tiger Teams or Bust for Real Agents

AI engineering is hitting production speeds three to four times faster than DevOps ever did. But without tiger teams blending code rigor and data fuzziness, those agents stay vaporware.

theAIcatchup Apr 10, 2026 3 min read

Sam Bhagwat on podcast mic discussing AI agents and tiger teams

⚡ Key Takeaways

AI engineering adopts 3-4x faster than DevOps—urgency demands new playbooks. 𝕏
Custom evals on org data trump generic benchmarks for production agents. 𝕏
Tiger teams fuse eng precision with data stats to actually ship AI. 𝕏

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