Chain of Thought
Episodes
Explaining Eval Engineering | Galileo's Vikram Chatterji
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Debunking AI's Environmental Panic | Andy Masley
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The Critical Infrastructure Behind the AI Boom | Cisco’s Jeetu Patel
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI is accelerating at a breakneck pace, but model quality isn’t the only constraint we face.. There are major infrastructure requirements, energy ne...
Beyond Transformers: Maxime Labonne on Post-Training, Edge AI, and the Liquid Foundation Model Breakthrough
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The transformer architecture has dominated AI since 2017, but it’s not the only approach to building LLMs - and new architectures are bringing LLMs ...
Architecting AI Agents: The Shift from Models to Systems | Aishwarya Srinivasan, Fireworks AI Head of AI Developer Relations
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Most AI agents are built backwards, starting with models instead of system architecture.Aishwarya Srinivasan, Head of AI Developer Relations at Firewo...
The accidental algorithm: Melisa Russak, AI research scientist at WRITER
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we're doing something special and sharing an episode from another podcast we love: The Humans of AI by our friends at Writer. We're...
If Code Generation is Solved What's Next? | Graphite’s Greg Foster
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The incredible velocity of AI coding tools has shifted the critical bottleneck in software development from code generation to code reviews. Greg Fos...
Vercel's Playbook for AI Agents: From Vibe Check to Production | Malte Ubl
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
From Demo to Defensibility: How to Build an AI Business that Lasts | Aurimas Griciūnas
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The technological moat is eroding in the AI era, what new factors separate a successful startup from the rest?Aurimas Griciūnas, CEO of SwirlAI, join...
Mindset Over Metrics: How to Approach AI Engineering | Hamel Husain
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
How AI Velocity is Rewriting the Rules for Engineering Leaders | ChatPRD's Claire Vo
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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, tha...
Building an AI-Native Startup | GrowthX's Marcel Santilli
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Can AI Fix Healthcare? | Corti's Andreas Cleve
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI isn't just changing healthcare; it's providing the essential help needed to unlock a trillion-dollar opportunity for better care.Andreas Cl...
Mastering Multi-Agent Systems | MongoDB’s Mikiko Chandrasekhar
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI agents offer unprecedented power, but mastering agent reliability is the ultimate challenge for agentic systems to actually work in production.Miki...
The AI Agent Trust Gap: Bridging Risk to Reliability | Elastic’s Philipp Krenn
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The age of ubiquitous AI agents is here, bringing immense potential - and unprecedented risk.Hosts Conor Bronsdon and Vikram Chatterji open the episod...
Architecting Reliable Agentic AI | Cisco’s Giovanna Carofiglio on the AGNTCY Collective
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Internet of Agents is rapidly taking shape, necessitating innovative foundational standards, protocols, and evaluation methods for its success.Rec...
Taste Is The New Moat | Intangible CEO on Brand, Distribution, and Winning in AI
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When AI makes creating content and code nearly free, how do you stand out? Differentiation now hinges on two things: unique taste and effective distri...
The Emerging AI Agent Stack | CrewAI’s João Moura
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Unlocking AI agents for knowledge work automation and scaling intelligent, multi-agent systems within enterprises fundamentally requires measurability...
AMD's Vision for an Open Ecosystem | Anush Elangovan & Sharon Zhou
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How is an open ecosystem powering the next generation of AI for developers and leaders?Broadcasting live from the heart of the action at AMD's Adv...
Your Key to AI Success is Hiding in Plain Sight | Cohesity's Greg Statton
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if the most valuable data in your enterprise—the key to your AI future—is sitting dormant in your backups, treated like an insurance policy y...
Why Gamers Paved the Way for AI | Databricks' Carly Taylor
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if the pixels and polygons of your favorite video games were the secret architects of today's AI revolution?Carly Taylor, Field CTO for Gamin...
The 2025 AI Shift: From Chat to Task Completion & Reliable Action | Galileo Founders
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI in 2025 promises intelligent action, not just smarter chat. But are enterprises prepared for the agentic shift and the complex reliability hurdles ...
Amplitude's AI Playbook: Data, Talent Integration & Agentic Futures | Wade Chambers
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As AI redefines how products are built and customers are understood, what are the core strategies engineering leaders use to drive innovation and crea...
First Code, Then AGI: Software’s Event Horizon with Poolside Founders Jason Warner & Eiso Kant
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is the prevailing approach to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) missing a crucial step – deep, focused specialization? For the first time since...
AI's Two Extremes – Foundations & The Frontier | Databricks’ Denny Lee
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The AI landscape often pulls us between the allure of cutting-edge models and the quiet necessity of foundational work—yet how do these extremes act...
Why Enterprises Need a Different Approach to AI Agents | Lyzr’s Siva Surendira
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Agentic AI exploded in 2025, but how do businesses move beyond prototypes to deploy reliable, valuable agents at scale?Join host Conor Bronsdon and Ly...
Will AI Erase All Language Barriers? | Smartling's Olga Beregovaya
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are we on the verge of removing all language barriers with AI?Olga Beregovaya, VP of AI at Smartling, joins host Conor Bronsdon to tackle this questio...
AI, Low-Code, and Shaping the Next Generation of Apps | OutSystems' Rodrigo Coutinho
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if you could turn a requirement document into a full enterprise application in just minutes?Rodrigo Coutinho, co-founder and AI Product Manager a...
AI Won't Solve Your Toughest Engineering Problems | Honeycomb’s Charity Majors
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Generative AI dominates the conversation, but does it actually make it easier to build, lead, and sustain high-performing engineering teams?Host Conor...
Building IBM's watsonx & The Future of Enterprise AI | Dr. Maryam Ashoori
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Building trustworthy, scalable AI isn't just about models; it's about navigating a complex ecosystem of tools and regulations. Join hosts Conor Brons...
What is Information Symmetry and Will AI Unlock it? | DevRev’s Manoj Agarwal
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if everyone in your organization had equal information at all times? Would meetings even exist? This week, we dive into the concept of informati...
Is There an Agent Bubble? | Spot AI’s Kelly Vaughn
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is the agentic AI bubble about to burst? Kelly Vaughn, Director of Engineering at Spot AI, questions whether the agent craze is overpromising potentia...
Using AI to Modernize Your Legacy Applications | MongoDB’s Rachelle Palmer
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine cutting your legacy code modernization timeline from years to months. It’s no longer science fiction and this week’s guest is here to tell...
Can Your AI Strategy Be Future-Proof? | Galileo’s Vikram Chatterji
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we're sharing a special episode courtesy of 'Dev Interrupted.' Our co-host, Galileo CEO Vikram Chatterji, recently joined theDe...
The Making of Gemini 2.0: DeepMind's Approach to AI Development and Deployment | Logan Kilpatrick
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Google’s strength in AI has often seemed to get lost in the midst of OpenAI announcements or DeepSeek fervor - yet Gemini 2.0 is more than good for ...
DeepSeek Fallout, Export Controls & Agentic Evals
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, hosts Conor Bronsdon and Atindriyo Sanyal discuss the fallout from DeepSeek's groundbreaking R1 model, its impact on the open-source AI...
AI, Open Source & Developer Safety | Block’s Rizel Scarlett
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As DeepSeek so aptly demonstrated, AI doesn’t need to be closed source to be successful.This week, Rizel Scarlett, a Staff Developer Advocate at Blo...
AI in 2025: Agents & The Rise of Evaluation Driven Development
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"In the next three to five years, every piece of software that is built on this planet will have some sort of AI baked into it." - Atin Sany...
Now is the Time to Build | Weaviate’s Bob van Luijt
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"This is the time. This is the time to start building... I can't say that often enough. This is the time." - Bob van Luijt Join Bob va...
How AI Assistants Can Enhance Human Connection | Twilio’s Vinnie Giarrusso
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Can AI assistants actually enhance human connection? As Season 1 of Chain of Thought comes to a close, Conor Bronsdon and Vinnie Giarrusso (Twilio) e...
Lessons from Deploying AI at Enterprise Scale | ServiceTitan, Indeed & Twilio
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, a panel of experts (Mehmet Murat Ezbiderli, ServiceTitan; Grant Ledford, Indeed; and Vinnie Giarrusso, Twilio) join Atin Sanyal (CTO, Galil...
Practical Lessons for GenAI Evals | Chip Huyen & Vivienne Zhang
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As AI agents and multimodal models become more prevalent, understanding how to evaluate GenAI is no longer optional – it's essential. Generati...
The Real ROI of Enterprise AI | HP, ServiceNow & Accenture
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The “ROI of AI” has been marketed as a panacea, a near-magical solution to all business problems. Following that promise, many companies have inve...
GenAI Predictions for 2025 | Databricks & Cohere
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Will 2025 be the year open-source LLMs catch up with their closed-source rivals? Will an established set of best practices for evaluating AI emerge? T...
Got Agents? | Weaviate, Unstructured & crewAI
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
AI agents have quickly emerged as the next ‘hot thing’ in AI, but what constitutes an AI agent and do they live up to the hype? Join Brian Raymond...
Trust, Regulation & the Road Ahead | Writer's May Habib
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From ChatGPT's search engine to Google's AI-powered code generation, artificial intelligence is transforming how we build and deploy technolog...
Welcome to Chain of Thought
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We are living in the age of AI. It's transforming everything around us, from the way we work and communicate, to how we solve global challenges. But f...