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On-call work is a race to turn noisy signals into shared judgment. The hardest minutes of that race aren't the ones spent fixing the bug — they're the ones spent figuring out what the bug...

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Key Contributors: Moein Hasani, Hamidreza Shahidi, Trace Levinson, Guanghua Shu Introduction At Instacart, we are laser-focused on improving the user experience by making shopping feel easy, engaging, and personalized. Our discovery surfaces play a central...

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Key Contributors: Youming Luo, Andrew Tanner, Matas Sriubiskis, Sylvia Lin, Sikun Zhu, Lei Li, Xiao Zhou Introduction Caper is Instacart’s AI-powered smart cart that provides customers with a fast, seamless, and intuitive shopping experience. We...

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Key contributors: Prithvi Srinivasan, Shishir Kumar Prasad, Kristen Morgan, Bryan Pham, Rick Shukla, Preeti Chadha, Vipul Bahubali, Ahmad Sajedi, and Ali Maleky Introduction Grocery flyers have long been a cornerstone of retail promotions, from paper...

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Author: Matt Kranzler Introduction At Instacart, our Caper smart carts bring together AI, computer vision, and real-time data to power the future of in-store shopping. Customers scan items as they shop and pay directly on...

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Authors: Yuanzheng Zhu, Guanghua Shu, Raochuan Fan, Vinesh Gudla, Tejaswi Tenneti Introduction When people search for items on Instacart, they don’t always type perfectly worded phrases. They might write “bread no gluten” or “x large...

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Author: Paul Baranowski At Instacart, we’re powering a grocery platform that cuts across millions of items, customers, and deliveries thanks to the application of LLMs at scale. In this post, we’ll detail how LLMs are...

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Author: Riddhima Sejpal Key Contributors : John Stuppy, Min Kim, Laimonas Turauskas, Nathan Marks, Ben Bernard At Instacart, artificial intelligence (AI) is an accelerant reshaping how we build, scale, and innovate. Whether it’s fostering a...

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Author: Shih-Ting Lin Key Contributors : Shishir Kumar Prasad, Matt Darcy, Paul Baranowski, Sonali Parthasarathy, DK Kwun, Peggy Men, Talha Maswala When you search for almond milk, are you looking for something unsweetened? Organic? Vanilla-flavored?...