Evaluation
Prompt Engineering
Mick McQuaid
mcq@utexas.edu
University of Texas at Austin
24 Nov 2025
Week THIRTEEN
First, an Agentic-AI conference
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That said, this one had a lot of business fluff … circling back to leverage our proactive synergies for a win-win
I want to highlight one of the presentations to warn you and to highlight one presentation and one panel that were helpful
McKinsey presentation
McKinsey is the world’s most prominent business strategy consulting firm
Presenter said it’s really a tech firm in disguise and would like to consult with all of us on our AI strategies
Presented a lot of statistics on CEO attitudes toward AI
They evidently talk to a lot of CEOs who are mostly clueless about AI but are otherwise very smart people
Based a lot of his presentation on the following two frames
The NASA antecedent