Agentic Machine Learning Modeling at Instacart

Tilman Drerup, Moe Moazzami, Shih-Ting Lin, Greg Reda (and many more)

Introduction

At Instacart, artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing the way our machine learning engineers operate. In a prior blog post, we used one of our teams as a case study to illustrate how the emergence of agents has reshaped what machine learning engineers spend their time on. The post below goes a few levels deeper and zooms in on the machine learning modeling process itself, an area where recent developments in AI-assisted research have opened up exciting new frontiers that we are now actively exploring. Based on the combined insights of a small horde of MLEs, we will share some of the big wins, the disappointments, and the surprises we encountered along the way.