Vercel's Playbook for AI Agents: From Vibe Check to Production | Malte Ubl
What’s the first step to building an enterprise-grade AI tool? Malte Ubl, CTO of Vercel, joins us this week to share Vercel’s playbook for agents, explaining how agents are a new type of software for solving flexible tasks. He shares how Vercel's developer-first ecosystem, including tools like the AI SDK and AI Gateway, is designed to help teams move from a quick proof-of-concept to a trusted, production-ready application.Malte explores the practicalities of production AI, from the importance of eval-driven development to debugging chaotic agents with robust tracing. He offers a critical lesson on security, explaining why prompt injection requires a totally different solution - tool constraint - than traditional threats like SQL injection. This episode is a deep dive into the infrastructure and mindset, from sandboxes to specialized SLMs, required to build the next generation of AI tools.Follow the hostsFollow AtinFollow ConorFollow VikramFollow YashFollow Today's Guest(s)Connect with Malte on LinkedInFollow Malte on X (formerly Twitter)Learn more about VercelCheck out GalileoTry GalileoAgent Leaderboard
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From Demo to Defensibility: How to Build an AI Business that Lasts | Aurimas Griciūnas
The technological moat is eroding in the AI era, what new factors separate a successful startup from the rest?Aurimas Griciūnas, CEO of SwirlAI, joins the show to break down the realities of building in this new landscape. Startup success now hinges on speed, strong financial backing, or immediate distribution. Aurimas warns against the critical mistake of prioritizing shiny tools over fundamental engineering and the market gaps this creates.Discover the new moats for AI companies, built on a culture of relentless execution, tight feedback loops, and the surprising skills that define today's most valuable engineers.The episode also looks to the future, with bold predictions about a slowdown in LLM leaps and the coming impact of coding agents and self-improving systems.Follow the hostsFollow AtinFollow ConorFollow VikramFollow YashFollow Today's Guest(s)Connect with Aurimas on LinkedInAurimas' Course: End-to-End AI Engineering BootcampCheck out GalileoTry GalileoAgent Leaderboard
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Mindset Over Metrics: How to Approach AI Engineering | Hamel Husain
As we enter the era of the AI engineer, the biggest challenge isn't technical - it's a shift in mindset. Hamel Husain, a leading AI consultant and luminary in the eval space, joins the podcast to explore the skills and processes needed to build reliable AI. Hamel explains why many teams relying on vanity dashboards and a "buffet of metrics" experience a false sense of security, which is no substitute for customized evals tailored to domain-specific risks. The solution? A disciplined process of error analysis, grounded in manually looking at data to identify real-world failures This discussion is an essential guide to building the continuous learning loops and "experimentation mindset" required to take AI products from prototype to production with confidence. Listen to learn the playbook for building AI reliability, and derive qualitative insights from log data to build customized quantitative guardrails. Follow the hostsFollow AtinFollow ConorFollow VikramFollow YashFollow Today's Guest(s)Connect with Hamel on LinkedInFollow Hamel on X/TwitterCheck out his blog: hamel.devCheck out GalileoTry GalileoAgent Leaderboard
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How AI Velocity is Rewriting the Rules for Engineering Leaders | ChatPRD's Claire Vo
What if your next competitor is not a startup, but a solo builder on a side project shipping features faster than your entire team? For Claire Vo, that's not a hypothetical. As the founder of ChatPRD, formerly the Chief Product and Technology Officer at LaunchDarkly, and host of the How I AI podcast, she has a unique vantage point on the driving forces behind a new blueprint for success.She argues that AI accountability must be driven from the top by an "AI czar" and reveals how a culture of experimentation is the key to overcoming organizational hesitancy. Drawing from her experience as a solo founder, she warns that for incumbents, the cost of moving slowly is the biggest threat and details how AI can finally be used to tackle legacy codebases. The conversation closes with bold predictions on the rise of the "super IC" - who can achieve top-tier impact and salary without managing a team - and the death of product management. Follow the hostsFollow AtinFollow ConorFollow VikramFollow YashFollow Today's Guest(s)Connect with Claire on LinkedInFollow Claire on X/TwitterClaire’s podcast How I AICheck out GalileoTry GalileoAgent Leaderboard
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Building an AI-Native Startup | GrowthX's Marcel Santilli
How do you build an AI-native company to a $7M run rate in just six months?According to Marcel Santilli, Founder and CEO of GrowthX, the secret isn't chasing the next frontier model, it's mastering the "messy middle." Drawing on his deep experience at Scale AI and Deepgram, Marcel joins host Conor Bronsdon to share his framework for building durable, customer-obsessed businesses.Marcel argues that the most critical skills for the AI era aren't technical but philosophical: first-principles thinking and the art of delegation.Tune in to learn why GrowthX first focused on services to codify expert work, how AI can augment human talent instead of replacing it, and why speed and brand are a startup's greatest competitive advantages. This conversation offers a clear playbook for building a resilient company by prioritizing culture and relentless shipping.Follow the hostsFollow AtinFollow ConorFollow VikramFollow YashFollow Today's Guest(s)Connect with Marcel on LinkedInFollow Marcel on X (formerly Twitter)Learn more about GrowthXCheck out GalileoTry GalileoAgent Leaderboard
Introducing Chain of Thought, the weekly podcast for software engineers and leaders that demystifies artificial intelligence.
Join host Conor Bronsdon each week as we tell the stories of the people building the AI revolution, unravel actionable strategies for agents and share practical techniques for building effective GenerativeAI applications.
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