AI Engineer · August 29, 2026

Tell the Robot What You Want — Sandhya Subramani, AWS

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Why it matters

Sandhya Subramani asks her rover how many people it can see, a question nobody ever trained it to answer. It thinks for a second, checks its front camera, and reports two, one near the speaker monitor and one further right.

My takeaway: Tell the Robot What You Want — Sandhya Subramani, AWS is an AI-engineering signal. The practical read is to connect the implementation pattern to reliability, data boundaries, observability, and the controls needed when AI leaves prototypes.

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