Blair Hudson
Chief Engineer, Generative AI at Commonwealth Bank
Blair Hudson is Chief Engineer, Generative AI at Commonwealth Bank, where he leads roughly ten engineering teams building the generative AI platform used across Australia's largest bank. He previously served as VP of Engineering at Faethm AI, an AI-driven workforce-planning start-up, and began experimenting with large language models on GPT-2 well before ChatGPT existed. Hudson is recognised as an Australian AI and software engineering leader. On In The Blink Of AI with Georgie Healy, he spoke about scaling generative AI inside a major financial institution.
Career
- Now Chief Engineer, Generative AI · Commonwealth Bank
- Earlier · Startup VP of Engineering · Faethm AI
Sources: dayone.fm
Key moments
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- 3:05 What Does a Chief Engineer of AI at a Bank Actually Do
- 6:02 How CBA Collaborates Across Hundreds of Engineering Teams
- 8:56 How to Keep Up With AI Tools Without Getting Overwhelmed
- 12:04 Why Tool Consistency Matters in Enterprise AI
- 14:56 Why Blair Shares His AI Insights Publicly
- 17:51 What Being a Hacker Really Means in Tech
- 20:50 How Blair Hudson Went From Startup AI to Commonwealth Bank
- 23:59 Why CBA Starts Every Sprint With a Real Customer Call
- 27:06 Why Over-Engineering Is Killing Your AI Projects
- 29:47 Where AI Is Actually Moving the Needle in Banking Right Now
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