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S3E62 The First Fully Autonomous AI Attack Is 18 Months Away | Kristin Lovejoy
Kristin "Kris" Lovejoy has spent her career inside the systems the global economy runs on: banks, hospitals, energy grids, governments. Today she is Global Head of Strategy at Kyndryl, the world's…
S3E61 The AI Framework Era Is Over: Why Context Is the Moat | Jerry Liu
Jerry Liu built one of the most installed pieces of AI plumbing of the last three years. LlamaIndex became the indexing and retrieval layer a whole generation of RAG apps were stitched together with.…
S3E60 We Built Agents, Nobody Built HR | Tyler Akidau, Redpanda
Tyler Akidau spent 12 years on streaming systems at Google and five years at Snowflake before joining Redpanda as CTO. He wrote the O'Reilly Streaming Systems book most of the field has on its shelf.…
S3E59 How Superhuman Built AI Into a 100ms Product | Loïc Houssier
Loïc Houssier leads engineering at Superhuman, the email client Grammarly acquired for ~$825 million in July 2025. Before Superhuman he was CTO of OpenTrust (acquired by DocuSign), ran engineering at…
S3E58 The AI Hiring Doom Loop: Applications Up 239%, Hires Down 75%
Job applications are up 239% since ChatGPT launched, tech layoffs show no signs of slowing down, and the market for technical talent is a topsy turvy mess. Greenhouse has a unique vantage point to…
S3E57 Every AI Agent Has an Evaluation Gap | Alex Ratner, Snorkel AI
Alex Ratner co-founded Snorkel AI out of Chris Ré's Stanford lab and helped establish data-centric AI as a field. Today, Snorkel is a $1.3B company shipping thousands of data sets and environments a…
S3E56 250,000 Lines of Code/Week: Inside an AMD VP's Agent-First Workflow | Anush Elangovan
What happens when a VP of AI Software at a major chip company goes all-in on AI coding agents for his own team's work?Anush Elangovan runs 10–12 Claude Code agents across three machines, burns 6.5…
S3E55 Hallucinations Are a Data Architecture Problem | Sudhir Hasbe, Neo4j
Sudhir Hasbe is President and Chief Product Officer at Neo4j, the graph database company powering 84 of the Fortune 100 (Walmart, Uber, Airbus) at $200M+ ARR and a $2B+ valuation. Before Neo4j, he…
S3E54 Why LLMs Are Plausibility Engines, Not Truth Engines | Dan Klein
Every few weeks at Microsoft, someone would build an AI prototype that blew everyone's minds. Three months later? Dead. "We can never ship that." Dan Klein watched this happen for five years before…
S3E53 Agent Memory: The Last Battleground in the AI Stack | Richmond Alake, Oracle
Richmond Alake is Director of AI Developer Experience at Oracle and one of the most concrete voices on agent memory right now. His AI Engineer World's Fair talk on architecting agent memory crossed…
S3E52 Context Poisoning Is Killing Your AI Agents: How to Stop It
Michel Tricot co-founded Airbyte, the open source data integration platform with 600+ free connectors that hit a $1.5 billion valuation. Now he's building the company's next product: an agent engine,…
S3E51 I Started r/AI_Agents and Now I'm Launching a VC Fund
Yujian Tang started the r/AI_Agents subreddit in April 2023. For the first year, it barely moved. Then it hit 9,000 members, he went on vacation, came back to 36,000, and now it's approaching…
S3E50 I Built an AI Coworker That Runs 90% of My Day
Sterling Chin stopped thinking of AI as a tool and started treating it like a junior employee. Onboarded it with context, corrected its mistakes, and gave it writing rules. Forty days later, MARVIN…
S3E49 How Intercom Cut $250K/Month by Ditching GPT for Qwen
Intercom was spending $250K/month on a single summarization task using GPT. Then they replaced it with a fine-tuned 14B parameter Qwen model and saved almost all of it. In this episode, Intercom's…
S3E48 How Block Deployed AI Agents to 12,000 Employees in 8 Weeks w/ MCP | Angie Jones
How do you deploy AI agents to 12,000 employees in just 8 weeks? How do you do it safely? Angie Jones, VP of Engineering for AI Tools and Enablement at Block, joins the show to share exactly how her…
S3E47 Gemini 3 & Robot Dogs: Inside Google DeepMind's AI Experiments | Paige Bailey
Google DeepMind is reshaping the AI landscape with an unprecedented wave of releases—from Gemini 3 to robotics and even data centers in space. Paige Bailey, AI Developer Relations Lead at Google…
S3E46 Explaining Eval Engineering | Galileo's Vikram Chatterji
You've heard of evaluations—but eval engineering is the difference between AI that ships and AI that's stuck in prototype.Most teams still treat evals like unit tests: write them once, check a box,…
S3E45 Debunking AI's Environmental Panic | Andy Masley
AI is destroying the planet—or so we've been told. This week on Chain of Thought, we tackle one of the most persistent and misleading narratives in the AI conversation.Andy Masley, Director of…
S2E44 The Critical Infrastructure Behind the AI Boom | Cisco CPO Jeetu Patel
AI is accelerating at a breakneck pace, but model quality isn’t the only constraint we face.. There are major infrastructure requirements, energy needs, security, and data pipelines to run AI at…
S2E43 Beyond Transformers: How Liquid AI Is Rethinking LLM Architecture | Maxime Labonne
The transformer architecture has dominated AI since 2017, but it’s not the only approach to building LLMs - and new architectures are bringing LLMs to edge devicesMaxime Labonne, Head of…
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