Authors : Marsan Ma, Nikhil Lopes, Raj Amrit, Hong Lu, Dipankar Biswas, Trent KyonoLeadership: Iris Wang, Madhu Kurup Recommendation and ranking systems power many of the most important experiences on large internet platforms. Yet the models that run in production are rarely the largest models we can train. They are usually compact, latency-sensitive supervised models […]
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Become Builders, Not Coders
Why agentic coding tools demand a new identity for software engineers After more than two decades of professional software engineering, I have arrived at a set of conclusions that I find very uncomfortable. The era of mostly manual coding has ended. IDEs, in their current form, are no longer necessary. Traditional software development languages are […]
The Importance of Using a Composite Metric to Measure Performance
In the past, Indeed has used a variety of metrics to evaluate our client-side performance, but we’ve tended to focus on one at a time. Traditionally, we chose a single performance metric and used it as the measuring stick for whether we were improving or degrading the user experience. This made it simple to track […]