Lightning Lessons

Agents in production from a designer's perspective

Hosted by Jason Liu and David Kim

323 students

What you'll learn

Shipping agents: a designer's journey

How design thinking shapes agent development from concept through production deployment and iteration

Eval infrastructure & observability for designers

Why these technical systems matter for design decisions and how they enable better agent experiences

Real lessons from building Loop

Concrete examples of design challenges, wins, and failures when creating a production AI agent

Why this topic matters

Designers are essential to making AI agents people actually want to use. Understanding evaluation and observability from a design lens helps you make smarter product decisions and work better with engineers. Learn how design thinking shaped Loop's production journey and gain practical insights to ship your own agents successfully.

You'll learn from

Jason Liu

Consultant at the intersection of Information Retrieval and AI

Jason has built search and recommendation systems for the past 6 years. He has consulted and advised a dozens startups in the last year to improve their RAG systems. He is the creator of the Instructor Python library. 

David Kim

Design engineer, Braintrust

Engineer turned designer. Passionate about developer tools and experiences.

worked with

Braintrust đź§ 
Stitch Fix
Meta
University of Waterloo
New York University