Yuki Tanaka

Yuki Tanaka is a principal engineer at Anthropic, where she works directly with enterprise teams integrating foundation models into production systems. She has spent the last three years watching engineering teams make the same six mistakes — and has developed a precise vocabulary for what goes wrong and why.

Her work at Anthropic sits at the boundary between model capability and real-world deployment — a boundary that is messier, more expensive, and more interesting than most engineering teams expect when they start. She has worked with teams across healthcare, finance, legal, and software development, which means her list of failure modes is longer and more specific than most.

At BuildWithAI Summit, Yuki delivers one of the most anticipated sessions of Day 1 — a direct, evidence-based talk on the six assumptions that slow engineering teams down when they build on foundation models. The goal is to save every person in the room at least three months of avoidable rebuilding.