Chain of Thought | AI Agents, Infrastructure & Engineering

Is the agentic AI bubble about to burst? Kelly Vaughn, Director of Engineering at Spot AI, questions whether the agent craze is overpromising potential and leading startups down a path of unsustainable expectations. Never one to shy away from a hot take, Kelly joins host Conor Bronsdon for a pragmatic look at AI, discussing the differences between building AI-enabled and traditional software, why...

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 us how.  Rachelle Palmer, Director of Product Management at MongoDB, joins hosts Conor Bronsdon and Atindriyo Sanyal, for a discussion on the groundbreaking ways AI is modernizing legacy applications.  At MongoDB, Rachelle's forward-deployed AI engineer...

This week, we're sharing a special episode courtesy of 'Dev Interrupted.' Our co-host, Galileo CEO Vikram Chatterji, recently joined theDev Interrupted team for an engaging discussion on AI strategy. We were so impressed by the conversation that we wanted to share it with our audience, and they were kind enough to let us. We hope you enjoy it! From Dev Interrupted: "Vikram Chatterji joins Dev Inte...

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 many tasks; it’s the model to beat - and we have the research to back it up.  This week, Logan Kilpatrick, senior product manager at Google DeepMind, joins us to discuss Gemini’s creation story, its emergence as the premiere model in the AI race, and w...

This week, hosts Conor Bronsdon and Atindriyo Sanyal discuss the fallout from DeepSeek's groundbreaking R1 model, its impact on the open-source AI landscape, and how its release will impact model development moving forward. They also discuss what effect (if any) export controls have had on AI innovation and whether we’re witnessing the rise of “Agents as a Service”.  To tackle the increasing compl...

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 Block, joins Conor Bronsdon to discuss the intersections between AI, open source, and developer advocacy. Rizel shares her journey into the world of AI, her passion for empowering developers, and her work on Block's new AI initiative, Goose , an on-machi...

"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 Sanyal Chain of Thought is back for its second season, and this episode dives headfirst into the possibilities AI holds for 2025 and beyond. Join Conor Bronson as he chats with Galileo co-founders Yash Sheth (COO) and Atindriyo Sanyal (CTO) about major trends to l...

"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 van Luijt, CEO and co-founder of Weaviate as he sits down with our host Conor Bronson for the Season 2 premiere of Chain of Thought. Together, they explore the ever-evolving world of AI infrastructure and the evolution of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architec...

Can AI assistants actually enhance human connection? As Season 1 of Chain of Thought comes to a close, Conor Bronsdon and Vinnie Giarrusso (Twilio) explore the transformative potential of AI assistants in the workplace. Discover how these assistants function as "async junior digital employees," taking on specific tasks and contributing to the organizational structure. But will AI assistants ultima...

This week, a panel of experts (Mehmet Murat Ezbiderli, ServiceTitan; Grant Ledford, Indeed; and Vinnie Giarrusso, Twilio) join Atin Sanyal (CTO, Galileo) and Conor Bronsdon (Developer Awareness, Galileo) to explore the challenges and opportunities of deploying GenAI at enterprise scale in a conversation that's a wake-up call for any business leader looking to harness the power of AI. Together, Ati...

As AI agents and multimodal models become more prevalent, understanding how to evaluate GenAI is no longer optional – it's essential.  Generative AI introduces new complexities in assessment compared to traditional software, and this week on Chain of Thought we’re joined by Chip Huyen (Storyteller, Tép Studio), Vivienne Zhang (Senior Product Manager, Generative AI Software, Nvidia) for a discussio...

The “ROI of AI” has been marketed as a panacea, a near-magical solution to all business problems. Following that promise, many companies have invested heavily in AI over the past year and are now asking themselves, “What is the return on my AI investment?” This week on Chain of Thought, Galileo’s CEO, Vikram Chatterji joins Conor Bronsdon to discuss AI's value proposition, from the initial hype to...

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? This week on Chain of Thought, we break out the crystal ball and give our biggest AI predictions for 2025. Listen as Sara Hooker, VP of Research at Cohere and Head of Cohere for AI predicts a trend towards smaller, more optimized AI models; Craig Wile...

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, founder & CEO at Unstructured.io, Bob van Luijt, co-founder & CEO at Weaviate, and João Moura, founder at CrewAI as they discuss the shift to agentic workflows, dissect their architecture, and tackle real-world challenges in agent deployment. ...

From ChatGPT's search engine to Google's AI-powered code generation, artificial intelligence is transforming how we build and deploy technology.  In this inaugural episode of Chain of Thought, the co-founders of Galileo explore the state of AI, from open-source models to establishing trust in enterprise applications. Plus, tune in for a segment on the impact of the Presidential election on AI regu...

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 for many, AI still feels like a black box. Introducing Chain of Thought, the podcast for software engineers and leaders that demystifies artificial intelligence. We’ll be joined by AI innovators, tech founders, and expert researchers such as Cohere’s...