Method · MoneyCreate a saved Sales Navigator search of your accounts filtered to first-degree connections and save it so you receive lead alerts whenever a first-degree connection changes jobs into your territory, letting you capitalize on the newness of the move.
Method, not a verified protocol.
30 Minutes to President's Club | No-Nonsense Sales · #614: How to Use LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Lead Generation
Method · MoneySet up a 'viewed your profile recently' alert filtered to your current company account lists to catch anyone in your territory checking you out. Don't filter by seniority or geography — anyone in your territory looking at your profile is worth engaging, from BDR to marketing coordinator.
Method, not a verified protocol.
30 Minutes to President's Club | No-Nonsense Sales · #614: How to Use LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Lead Generation
Method · MoneyFor a first-degree connection with no open opportunity, send a nurture note with a helpful article related to something you sell, can help with, or a past shared passion — not a sales pitch. When a senior manager from a company where you have an open opportunity views your profile, send a connection request referencing your work with their team without calling attention to their tie to the deal. For a stranger with no open opportunity, send a connection request noting you work with their industry peers on a specific challenge and offering help or a chat.
Method, not a verified protocol.
30 Minutes to President's Club | No-Nonsense Sales · #614: How to Use LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Lead Generation
Method · MoneySave every deal's stakeholders — the people you're multi-threaded into — into a Sales Navigator list at close, so you can track them via 'client job hopper' searches and get notified when they change jobs and where they go. This approach uses lists rather than saved searches.
Method, not a verified protocol.
30 Minutes to President's Club | No-Nonsense Sales · #614: How to Use LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Lead Generation
Method · MoneyTo track customer execs changing jobs, filter Sales Navigator by current company (your territory) and past company (an account list of your biggest logos, e.g., Fortune 50 that work with you, or by verticals like law firms or pharma). Narrow by seniority level and geography, or large companies with people moving around will flood you with results.
Method, not a verified protocol.
30 Minutes to President's Club | No-Nonsense Sales · #614: How to Use LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Lead Generation
Method · MoneySet up a Sales Navigator search that alerts you anytime a new executive joins your own organization. New executives are eager to make a fast impact and can drive value in about 15 minutes, and connecting with them is one of the fastest ways they can make that impact.
Method, not a verified protocol.
30 Minutes to President's Club | No-Nonsense Sales · #614: How to Use LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Lead Generation
MethodPamela Fox walks through the concrete setup for an LLM judge: put the LLM in judge mode and tell it it is an evaluator, tell it what it is evaluating, give it the query and response (plus context for groundedness), and force it to output a pass/fail verdict together with a reason.
Method, not a verified protocol.
AI Engineer · The Model Swap Workshop: GPT-5.5 vs Kimi vs DeepSeek vs Mistral — Pamela Fox, Microsoft
MethodPut the LLM in judge mode by telling it it is an evaluator and what it's evaluating. Give it the query and the response as inputs; for groundedness, also give it the context. Force a binary pass/fail decision, have it also give a reason, and ask for JSON output so results are parseable.
Method, not a verified protocol.
AI Engineer · The Model Swap Workshop: GPT-5.5 vs Kimi vs DeepSeek vs Mistral — Pamela Fox, Microsoft
MethodPamela Fox walks through a repeatable workflow: check whether the model calls the right tool and passes expected arguments; treat wrong arguments as a signal of ambiguity in the description; clarify the description with explicit constraints (e.g., 'don't include me or you, just named attendees', 'first and last if provided'); then re-evaluate across all inputs.
Method, not a verified protocol.
AI Engineer · The Model Swap Workshop: GPT-5.5 vs Kimi vs DeepSeek vs Mistral — Pamela Fox, Microsoft
RecommendationPamela Fox recommends using DSPy to avoid manually tweaking prompts per model: declare the program's constraints (e.g., take user input and turn it into a structured calendar event) and DSPy figures out the prompt that adheres to them. She also advises setting up checks/tests to verify whether output satisfies each constraint so DSPy can iterate, and providing the student model and reflection model so it can run the optimizer.
AI Engineer · The Model Swap Workshop: GPT-5.5 vs Kimi vs DeepSeek vs Mistral — Pamela Fox, Microsoft
Method · MoneyThe speakers demonstrate a proof command using Playwright to verify end-to-end behavior: taking screenshots to verify UI state, checking the inner text of a status element to confirm the email address appears, checking storage state after an action to verify data was actually persisted (e.g., an email saved to the waitlist), and using reload and snapshot together to confirm state survives a page reload. They also note checking rendering at different widths and in dark/light mode to catch rendering bugs that affect real users.
Method, not a verified protocol.
AI Engineer · Teach Your Agent to Prove It's Done — Nick Nisi & Zack Proser, WorkOS
Recommendation · MoneyLaurie Voss recommends giving the faithfulness judge the full context — raw search results plus the agent's research notes — not just the notes. If you only give it the research notes, it will flag numbers as made up because it doesn't know the web search actually found that data. The getAgentRuns helper pulls both.
AI Engineer · How to Know If Your AI Agent Is Any Good: Evals With Phoenix & Claude — Laurie Voss, Arize AI
Recommendation · MoneyLaurie Voss recommends pointing a coding agent at traces to look for weird things, claiming coding agents are aces at reading traces, while keeping manual inspection as a sampling technique since agents won't always find what you expected.
AI Engineer · How to Know If Your AI Agent Is Any Good: Evals With Phoenix & Claude — Laurie Voss, Arize AI
Recommendation · MoneyThe simplest useful code eval checks whether the report mentions the ticker symbol of the company asked about — a binary check where using an LLM would be overkill. It found real errors (Tesla and Amazon reports missing their tickers; the Amazon one wrote only about AWS), and it costs nothing to run.
AI Engineer · How to Know If Your AI Agent Is Any Good: Evals With Phoenix & Claude — Laurie Voss, Arize AI
Recommendation · MoneyOpen a branch on a tagged challenge: a separate agent tasked with reviewing the plan, reviewing the assumptions, and doing healthy challenge.
endorsed advice
AI Engineer · Stop Chatting With Spreadsheets — Francesco Galletta & Felippe Felisola Caso, Monzo
MethodTry the simplest method first, then try something a little more complicated, and check whether the performance lift justifies the additional complexity. If it does not, stay with the more interpretable method. The guest notes there is a lot of temptation to go straight to neural networks and transformers, but that is often not the right way to go.
Method, not a verified protocol.
Y Combinator · AI Safety Fact vs. Fiction | YC Paper Club
RecommendationWe need something in the very near term before an NTSB for AI could be set up — could be a not-for-profit. We need a non-punitive reporting system for AI safety, best practices plus postmortem analysis, and something like US GAAP for AI: generally accepted AI deployment principles with auditors (like KPMG or Ernst & Young) you can choose from. We should also take validation of AI seriously from a number of different perspectives.
Y Combinator · AI Safety Fact vs. Fiction | YC Paper Club
RecommendationApplying the Swiss cheese model to large language models: we control the training data, the pre-train, the RLHF, the RSI, all the data being sampled, and we can take out the bad data. Percy is reportedly running a small model to look over the pre-train data to remove bad stuff so the model can't possibly learn those bad things. After cleaning training data, the next layers are: do a failure analysis on the data, estimate failures, sample some failures, estimate failure modes, get to a p fail (or one minus p fail, which is p success), then tools, and all the way to runtime monitoring. Clark adds that you need all these layers — the opening-remarks example had the chain of thought monitor turned off, which would be one of those layers.
Y Combinator · AI Safety Fact vs. Fiction | YC Paper Club
Recommendation · MoneyHave the best agent do planning, a faster cheaper agent do implementation, and the best agent for review again. Faster cheaper models like JRM 5.3 Flash can do implementation tasks at the same quality level as stronger agents when a stronger agent does the planning.
AI Engineer · The AI Bill Is Too Damn High: Tokenomics 101 — Eugene Cheah, Featherless AI
Recommendation · MoneyAdd an extra step between observing and reasoning — something like 'recall long-term memory' — that lets the agent recall memories and makes it introspective before solving the problem. The recall step goes to the vector store (or wherever the long-term memory episode from a previous conversation is recorded) and pulls from it if the agent considers it interesting. This acts like an additional abstraction between the observing and the reasoning parts of the loop.
creator's recommendation for the loop design
AI Engineer · Memory-Aware Agent Harnesses for Anti-Money Laundering — Nacho Martinez, Oracle