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BEYOND THE MODEL: ENGINEERING AI INFRA WITH SCIENTIFIC JUDGEMENT

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Airbnb's Insight Miner turns a repeatable scientific methodology for exploring unstructured text into infrastructure around an AI agent. It combines extraction, embeddings, clustering, prompt tuning, hard-example mining, and audit trails so investigations that once took months can run in days without sacrificing expert judgment.