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How Predictive Analytics Stops Budget Overruns Before They Happen?
Every engineer at Wayfair can now see, in real time, exactly what their code costs, and that's on purpose. Brent Eubanks, FinOps Architect at Wayfair, walks us through what happens when you stop treating AI spend as a finance problem and start treating it as an engineering one.The story that sticks with you: a team was burning $400k a month on an LLM-driven workflow, until they flipped the who
How To Delegate To An Agent Like You Would An Employee?
OpenAI's Codex developer experience lead sits down with a former comedian turned ML engineering lead for a conversation about what happens when computer use agents stop being a novelty and start actually running your day.The conversation moves through building an AI-powered morning brief that reads every email, Slack message, and tweet before you've even opened your laptop, letting pinned
Why Your AI Bill Will Double Before It Gets Better
In this episode, we're joined by Josh Collier, FinOps Lead at Superhuman (formerly Grammarly), to explore what it really costs to run AI at scale and why the rules of the game changed faster than anyone expected.We discuss how AI token costs dropped 80% in two years, why that trend has sharply reversed with frontier models doubling in price, and how Josh rebuilt a single LLM workflow that cost $40
MCP Goes Stateless
David Soria Parra is an Engineering Lead at Anthropic and one of the core maintainers of the Model Context Protocol (MCP). We explore the biggest evolution of the protocol since its launch, and why MCP is becoming the foundation for the next generation of AI agents.We discuss why MCP is moving toward stateless communication, what developers misunderstand about state, sessions, and transport layers
AI Hype vs. Real Value
Manish Dasaur is a Managing Director at PwC with over 20 years in data and AI, having helped 100+ clients navigate AI disruption and extract real business value from data, AI, and agentic AI initiatives. In this episode, he breaks down why most enterprise AI programs stall — and the playbook the winners are using instead.Huge thanks to PwC for supporting this episode!💰 The 30% benchmark — What &qu
The Creator of FastMCP Explains the Future of MCP
In this episode, we're joined by Jeremiah Lowin, Founder & CEO at Prefect and the creator of FastMCP, to explore how one of the most influential projects in the MCP ecosystem came to be - and where the protocol is heading next.We discuss the accidental origin of FastMCP, why Anthropic adopted it into the official SDK, what developers are getting wrong about MCP, and why Chris believes the
What Happens When Every Developer Has 20 AI Agents?
In this episode, we're joined by Stephen O'Grady, Co-Founder and Principal Analyst at RedMonk, to explore one of the biggest shifts happening in software engineering: AI is making code dramatically cheaper to produce, but everything downstream is becoming the new bottleneck.We discuss why SaaS isn't dead despite the hype, the explosive rise of MCP, why AI agents are overwhelming develo
AI Agents Should Be Treated Like Hackers
In this episode, we're joined by Matt DeBergalis, CTO and Co-Founder of Apollo GraphQL, to explore what happens when AI agents start interacting with enterprise systems that were never designed for them.We dive into the collision between APIs, MCP, GraphQL, and agentic AI, and why traditional assumptions about trust, permissions, and security are breaking down. Matt argues that AI agents shoul
Developers May Stop Depending on Libraries
In this episode of Agentic Conversations, we're joined by Shaun Smith, software engineer, open source advocate, and contributor at Hugging Face, to explore how AI coding has changed almost overnight.We dive into reinforcement learning, MCP (Model Context Protocol), Fast Agent, Claude Code, open source AI, and why today's language models have become so capable that many traditional software
10 Cities. 4 Countries. One Unexpected MCP Lesson.
In this episode, we're joined by Ben Morss, Developer Advocate at DeepL, who spent months traveling across North America and Europe teaching developers about MCP, building MCP servers, and helping teams understand how AI agents actually use tools.We dive into the biggest misconceptions around MCP, why so many developers still misunderstand how it works, and what Ben learned after giving talks
The Next Programming Language Is English
In this episode, we're joined by Cornelia Davis, Developer Advocate at Temporal and a longtime software architect who has spent decades helping shape modern cloud-native systems.We explore how programming has evolved from assembly language to cloud-native architectures, and why AI is forcing us to rethink software development once again. Cornelia argues that natural language is becoming a new
Omnigent: Composition, Control, and Collaboration for AI Agents
Denny Lee is PM Director, Startups & Ecosystem at Databricks, a longtime Apache Spark, MLflow, and Delta Lake contributor — and one of the people behind Omnigent, the open-source meta-harness Databricks just released under Apache 2.0. He joins Demetrios to explain why the industry is moving from models to harnesses to meta-harnesses, why token spend is replaying the CapEx-to-OpEx shift all ove
The Current State of Agentic Retrieval - Qdrant Roundtable
Qdrant Roundtable episode: The Current State of Agentic RetrievalJoin the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinInGet the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletterMLOps GPU Guide: https://go.mlops.community/gpuguideBig shout-out to Qdrant for the collaboration!// AbstractAI agents are only as good as the information they can find, retrieve, and remember. In this community roundtabl
AI Agents in Healthcare?
Kingsley Madikaegbu is the founder of HealID, a startup building agentic AI on top of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for one of the most heavily regulated environments there is: healthcare.Recorded at MCP Dev Summit North America in New York, Kingsley sits down with Alex Salkever of the Agentic AI Foundation to break down how you give patients, doctors, caregivers, and family members each their
Coding Agents Are Secretly General Agents
In this episode:🧠 Coding agents are generalist agents — why "positive transfer" means an agent that's better at code is better at everything, and how that makes them "AGI-complete"⏳ "Code will be solved in a year" — what the automation of knowledge work actually looks like, and why Jay joined ClickUp to be on it🏗️ Why the labs are crushing AI startups — free-for-t
The Dark Side of MCP Servers
Sam Partee (CTO & co-founder of Arcade.dev) and Nate Barbettini (Founding Engineer at Arcade.dev) sit down at the MCP Dev Summit to unpack what nobody wants to admit about the Model Context Protocol: the security model is still full of sharp edges. From tool poisoning and prompt injection to why OAuth got bolted onto the spec, this is a builder 's-eye view of where MCP breaks — and how to ship
Sandboxing, Agent Harnesses, and Agent Teamwork
Shahram Anver is the Co-Founder and CEO of Cleric, the autonomous AI SRE that investigates and root-causes production issues like an experienced teammate — often in under two minutes. Before Cleric, Shahram led MLOps, DevOps, and FinOps platform engineering at Gojek, Southeast Asia's super-app. In this conversation, he breaks down why production operations never kept pace with AI-accelerated d
Zipline Roundtable episode: Building Real-Time ML Systems with Zipline + Chronon
Zipline Roundtable episode: Building Real-Time ML Systems with Zipline + ChrononJoin the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinInGet the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletterMLOps GPU Guide: https://go.mlops.community/gpuguideBig shout-out to ZiplineAI for the collaboration!// AbstractReal-time ML use cases like personalization and risk decisioning come with a unique set of cha
MCP Servers Are Becoming the UI for AI Agents
Naseem Al-Naji is the co-founder of MCPcat.io and the creator of Opal — a builder with deep roots in privacy-first developer tooling. In this conversation, he breaks down why MCP servers have become a black box in production, and how MCPcat gives teams X-ray vision into how agents and users actually behave.What we get into:🐱 What MCPcat Is — Open-source analytics and live debugging built specifica
Agents & the $40M Bet on Multiplayer AI
Stanislas Polu is Co-Founder & CTO of Dust — the enterprise AI agent platform used by 51,000 workers at 3,000+ companies. Before Dust, he spent three years on OpenAI's research team under Ilya Sutskever, working on mathematical reasoning in language models, and prior to that was an engineer at Stripe. He brings a rare combination of frontier AI research and product-building experience to t
From Single-Player to Multi-Player: Operating AI Agents at Scale
James Everingham is the CEO and Co-founder of Guild.ai — the AI agent control plane for production teams. With roots at Netscape, Instagram (Head of Engineering), and Meta (Head of Dev Infra, leading a 1,000-person org), James brings rare, hard-won expertise to the challenge of operating AI agents at scale.From Single-Player to Multi-Player: Operating AI Agents at Scale // MLOps Podcast #383 with
The Control-vs-Magic Spectrum Building Agents
Thiago Cardoso is the Director of Data & AI at iFood and the architect behind iFood Pago's AI agent platform. This fintech system serves millions of restaurants across Brazil through WhatsApp and the iFood app. In this episode, he breaks down what it actually takes to ship agentic AI in production at scale.The Control-vs-Magic Spectrum Building Agents // MLOps Podcast #382 with Thiago Card
Logs Are All You Need: Rethinking Observability with AI Agents
Sherwood Callaway is the founder of Sazabi (YC P26), the AI-native observability platform built for engineering teams who ship fast. He previously founded and exited a YC company — now he's back, betting that logs are all you need to replace Datadog.Logs Are All You Need: Rethinking Observability with AI Agents // MLOps Podcast #381 with Sherwood Callaway, the Founder of Sazabi🔑 What's cov
AI Is Fast. AI Projects Are Slow. Let's Fix That.
Joe Maionchi (Co-founder & COO) and Rod Christensen (Co-founder & Chief Architect) of RocketRide join the MLOps Community to walk through AIDE — the AI Integrated Development Environment. RocketRide is an open-source AI pipeline platform that lets developers build, debug, and run production-grade agentic AI workflows directly from their IDE, with support for 13+ LLM providers, 8+ vector da
Architecting Modern AI Systems: Platforms, Agents, and Integration
BuzzHPC Roundtable episode: Architecting Modern AI Systems: Platforms, Agents, and Integration Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinInGet the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletterMLOps GPU Guide: https://go.mlops.community/gpuguideBig shout-out to BuzzHPC for the collaboration!// AbstractAs AI systems evolve into more autonomous, agent-driven architectures, the way we
[Special Announcement] MLOps Community Linux Foundation
Big news: the MLOps Community is joining the Linux Foundation to become the official user community of the new Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF). The AAIF is the neutral home for open source projects like the Model Context Protocol (MCP), goose, and AGENTS.md, co-founded by Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI. With that governance and scaffolding now in place, the open source agent ecosystem has room to scale
Inside Just Eat's AI Lab: Voice Agents & Agentic Commerce
Guthrie Cooper (Senior Group Product Manager, AI & Robotics) and Nidhi Sharma (Global Head of Engineering AI & Incubation) from Just Eat Takeaway.com join the MLOps.community to pull back the curtain on how one of Europe's largest food delivery platforms is running an internal innovation engine. From autonomous delivery robots to agentic AI voice assistants, they share what it actually
Autonomous Agents at Work: From OpenClaw Hype to Enterprise Reality
Pramod Krishnan is a Managing Director - AI Managed Services at PwC, specializing in enterprise AI transformation — helping large organizations move from AI experimentation to production operating models. In this episode with Demetrios, Pramod breaks down exactly what the OpenClaw wave means for enterprises, and the control frameworks PwC uses before a single agent touches production.Huge thanks t
Agents are Just While Loops
Hamza Tahir, co-founder of ZenML, joins the show to cut through the hype around long-running agents — arguing that at the end of the day, an agent is just a while loop that talks to a model, calls a tool, and writes to a file system. He covers the architecture of agent harnesses (inner and outer), what durable execution actually guarantees (and what it doesn't), and why the ML pipeline paradig
The Latency Goldilocks Zone Explained
Rafael (Head of Innovation, iFood) and Daniel (Data and AI Manager, iFood) pull back the curtain on ILO-Agent — iFood's conversational AI ordering system built for 200 million users across Latin America. Recorded live at AI House Amsterdam, this conversation goes deep into the engineering and product decisions behind building recommendation systems and agentic AI, and why the speed of your AI&
Building MCP Before MCP Existed: Inside Despegar's Sofia Agent
Nicolas Alejandro Bogliolo is the AI PM at Despegar, the largest online travel agency in Latin America, and the engineer-product-hybrid behind Sofia, the GenAI travel concierge that beat most of the OTA world to a working multi-agent system. Before MCP was a standard and before LangChain was widely adopted, his team had already shipped their own orchestration layer and tool protocol in production.
Voice Agent Use Cases
This episode is brought to you by the MLflow team. Check out more information at MLflow.org.What does it actually take to build voice AI at a billion-interaction scale? This episode features an ex-Amazon voice AI engineer who built customer support systems handling 2 billion+ interactions — now working on next-gen voice agent platforms. Anurag digs deep into the real engineering tradeoffs, design
The Creator of Superpowers: Why Real Agentic Engineering Beats Vibe Coding
Jesse Vincent is the Founder & CEO of Prime Radiant and creator of Superpowers — the most-used Claude Code plugin in the world. He built the first agentic software development methodology from scratch while managing MIT interns in the early 2000s, and hasn't written a line of code manually since October.The Creator of Superpowers: Why Real Agentic Engineering Beats Vibe Coding // MLOps Pod
It's 2026, and We're Still Talking Evals
Maggie Konstanty is an AI Product Manager at Prosus, one of the world's largest consumer internet companies, where she builds and evaluates AI agents for food ordering and ecommerce at scale. She's been inside the messy reality of LLM evaluation longer than most — and her take is unfiltered.It's 2026, and We're Still Talking Evals // MLOps Podcast #372 with Maggie Konstanty, AI Pro
Why Agents are Driving Software Development to the Cloud
This episode is brought to you by Hyperbolic and the MLflow team. Check out more information at hyperbolic.ai and MLflow.org.Why AI Coding Agents Are Moving to the Cloud — With Zach Lloyd, CEO of WarpZach Lloyd is the founder and CEO of Warp, the AI-native terminal and agentic development platform trusted by over a million developers. Before Warp, Zach was a product lead at Google on Google Docs —
The Modern Software Engineer
This episode is brought to you by the MLflow team. Check out more information at MLflow.org.Mihail Eric is Head of AI at Monaco and Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University, where he teaches CS146S: "The Modern Software Developer" — the first course in the world dedicated to how AI is transforming every stage of the software development lifecycle. With 12+ years building production AI sys
We Cut LLM Latency by 70% in Production
Maher Hanafi is an engineering leader who went from zero AI experience to self-hosting LLMs at enterprise scale — managing GPU costs, optimizing inference with TensorRT LLM, and building an AI platform for HR tech. In this conversation, he breaks down exactly how his team cut latency by 70%, reduced GPU spend through counterintuitive scaling strategies, and navigated the messy reality of taking AI
Getting Humans Out of the Way: How to Work with Teams of Agents
Rob Ennals is the creator of Broomy, an open-source IDE designed for working effectively with many agents in parallel. He previously worked at Meta, Quora, Google Search, and Intel Research. He has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge.Getting Humans Out of the Way: How to Work with Teams of Agents // MLOps Podcast #368 with Rob Ennals, the Creator of Broomy Join the Community
Fixing GPU Starvation in Large-Scale Distributed Training
Kashish Mittal is a Staff Software Engineer at Uber, working on large-scale distributed systems and core backend infrastructure.Fixing GPU Starvation in Large-Scale Distributed Training // MLOps Podcast #367 with Kashish Mittal, Staff Software Engineer at Uber Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinInGet the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletterMLOps GPU Guide: https://
Spec Driven Development, Workflows, and the Recent Coding Agent Conference
Jens Bodal is a Senior Software Engineer II working independently, focusing on backend systems, software architecture, and building scalable solutions across client projects.This One Shift Makes Developers Obsolete // MLOps Podcast #366 with Jens Bodal, Senior Software Engineer II, Independent Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinInGet the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTN
Operationalizing AI Agents: From Experimentation to Production // Databricks Roundtable
Databricks Roundtable episode: Operationalizing AI Agents: From Experimentation to Production. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinInGet the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletterMLOps GPU Guide: https://go.mlops.community/gpuguideBig shout-out to Databricks for the collaboration!// AbstractThis panel discusses the real-world challenges of deploying AI agents at scale
arrowspace: Vector Spaces and Graph Wiring
Lorenzo Moriondo is a Technical Lead for AI at tuned.org.uk, working on AI agent protocols, graph-based search, and production-grade LLM systems.arrowspace: Vector Spaces and Graph Wiring // MLOps Podcast #365 with Lorenzo Moriondo, AI Research and Product EngineerJoin the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinInGet the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletterMLOps GPU Guide: http
Agentic Marketplace
Donné Stevenson is a Machine Learning Engineer at Prosus, working on scalable ML infrastructure and productionizing GenAI systems across portfolio companies.Pedro Chaves is a Data Science Manager at OLX Group, working on GenAI-powered search, personalization, and large-scale marketplace recommendations.Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinInGet the newsletter: https://go.mlops.comm
Durable Execution and Modern Distributed Systems
Johann Schleier-Smith is the Technical Lead for AI at Temporal Technologies, working on reliable infrastructure for production AI systems and long-running agent workflows. Durable Execution and Modern Distributed Systems, Johann Schleier-Smith // MLOps Podcast #364Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinInGet the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletterMLOps Merch: https://
Performance Optimization and Software/Hardware Co-design across PyTorch, CUDA, and NVIDIA GPUs
March 3rd, Computer History Museum CODING AGENTS CONFERENCE, come join us while there are still tickets left.https://luma.com/codingagentsChris Fregly is currently focused on building and scaling high-performance AI systems, writing and teaching about AI infrastructure, helping organizations adopt generative AI and performance engineering principles on AWS, and fostering large developer communitie
Serving LLMs in Production: Performance, Cost & Scale // CAST AI Roundtable
Roundtable CAST AI episode: Serving LLMs in Production: Performance, Cost & Scale. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinInGet the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletterMLOps GPU Guide: https://go.mlops.community/gpuguide// AbstractExperimenting with LLMs is easy. Running them reliably and cost-effectively in production is where things break. Most AI teams never mak
The Future of Information Retrieval: From Dense Vectors to Cognitive Search
Rahul Raja is a Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn, working on large-scale search infrastructure, information retrieval systems, and integrating AI/ML to improve ranking and semantic search experiences.The Future of Information Retrieval: From Dense Vectors to Cognitive Search // MLOps Podcast #362 with Rahul Raja, Staff Software Engineer at LinkedInJoin the Community: https://go.mlops.community/
Rethinking Notebooks Powered by AI
Vincent Warmerdam is a Founding Engineer at marimo, working on reinventing Python notebooks as reactive, reproducible, interactive, and Git-friendly environments for data workflows and AI prototyping. He helps build the core marimo notebook platform, pushing its reactive execution model, UI interactivity, and integration with modern development and AI tooling so that notebooks behave like dependab
Software Engineering in the Age of Coding Agents: Testing, Evals, and Shipping Safely at Scale
Ereli Eran is the Founding Engineer at 7AI, where he’s focused on building and scaling the company’s agentic AI-driven cybersecurity platform — developing autonomous AI agents that triage alerts, investigate threats, enrich security data, and enable end-to-end automated security operations so human teams can focus on higher-value strategic work.Software Engineering in the Age of Coding Agents: Tes
Physical AI: Teaching Machines to Understand the Real World
Nick Gillian is the Co-Founder and CTO at Archetype AI, working on physical AI foundation models that understand and reason over real-world sensor data.Physical AI: Teaching Machines to Understand the Real World // MLOps Podcast #360 with Nick Gillian, Co-Founder and CTO of Archetype AIJoin the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinInGet the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewslette
Speed and Scale: How Today's AI Datacenters Are Operating Through Hypergrowth
Kris Beevers is the CEO at NetBox Labs, working on turning NetBox into the system of record and automation backbone for modern and AI-driven infrastructure.Speed and Scale: How Today's AI Datacenters Are Operating Through Hypergrowth // MLOps Podcast #359 with Kris Beevers, CEO of NetBox LabsJoin the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinInGet the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/Y
Cracking the Black Box: Real-Time Neuron Monitoring & Causality Traces
Mike Oaten is the Founder and CEO of TIKOS, working on building AI assurance, explainability, and trustworthy AI infrastructure, helping organizations test, monitor, and govern AI models and systems to make them transparent, fair, robust, and compliant with emerging regulations.Cracking the Black Box: Real-Time Neuron Monitoring & Causality Traces // MLOps Podcast #358 with Mike Oaten, Founder
A Playground for AI/ML Engineers
Paulo Vasconcellos is the Principal Data Scientist for Generative AI Products at Hotmart, working on AI-powered creator and learning experiences, including intelligent tutoring, content automation, and multilingual localization at scale.Join us at Coding Agents: The AI Driven Developer Conference - https://luma.com/codingagentsMLOps GPU Guide: https://go.mlops.community/gpuguideJoin the Community
How Universal Resource Management Transforms AI Infrastructure Economics
Wilder Lopes is the CEO and Founder of Ogre.run, working on AI-driven dependency resolution and reproducible code execution across environments.How Universal Resource Management Transforms AI Infrastructure Economics // MLOps Podcast #357 with Wilder Lopes, CEO / Founder of Ogre.runJoin the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinInGet the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter//
Conversation with the MLflow Maintainers
Corey Zumar is a Product Manager at Databricks, working on MLflow and LLM evaluation, tracing, and lifecycle tooling for generative AI.Jules Damji is a Lead Developer Advocate at Databricks, working on Spark, lakehouse technologies, and developer education across the data and AI community.Danny Chiao is an Engineering Leader at Databricks, working on data and AI observability, quality, and product
Leadership on AI
Euro Beinat is the Global Head of AI and Data Science at Prosus Group, working on scaling AI-driven tools and agent-based systems across Prosus’s global portfolio, deploying internal assistants like Toqan and generative AI platforms such as PlusOne, and building initiatives like AI House Amsterdam and interdisciplinary AI residencies to explore intent-driven AI and strengthen Europe’s AI ecosystem
Computers that Think and Take Actions for You
Zengyi Qin is the Founder of the OpenAGI Foundation, working on computer-use models and open, agent-centric AI infrastructure.Computers that Think and Take Actions for You, Zengy Qin // MLOps Podcast #355Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinInGet the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletterMLOps Merch: https://shop.mlops.community/// AbstractWhat if the computer itself c
Real time features, AI search, Agentic similarities
Varant Zanoyan is the Co-founder & CEO at Zipline AI, working on building a next-generation AI/ML infrastructure platform that streamlines data pipelines, model deployment, observability, and governance to accelerate enterprise AI development. Nikhil Simha Raprolu is the Co-founder & CTO at Zipline AI, focused on architecting and scaling the company’s AI data platform — extending the open-
Tool definitions are the new Prompt Engineering
Alex Salazar is the CEO and Co-Founder of Arcade.dev, working on secure AI agents and real-world automation integrations.Chiara Caratelli is a Data Scientist at Prosus Group, working on AI agents, web automation, and evaluation of robust multimodal models.Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinInGet the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletterMLOps GPU Guide: https://go.m
The Future of AI Agents is Sandboxed
Jonathan Wall is the CEO at Runloop.ai, working on enterprise-grade infrastructure and execution environments for AI coding agents.The Future of AI Agents is Sandboxed // MLOps Podcast #353 with Jonathan Wall, CEO at Runloop.ai.Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinInGet the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletterShoutout to @runloop-ai for powering this MLOps Podcast
Context engineering 2.0, Agents + Structured Data, and the Redis Context Engine
Simba Khadder is the founder and CEO of Featureform, now at Redis, working on real-time feature orchestration and building a context engine for AI and agents.Context Engineering 2.0, Simba Khadder // MLOps Podcast #352Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinInGet the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter// AbstractFeature stores aren’t dead — they were just misunderstood
Does AgenticRAG Really Work?
Satish Bhambri is a Sr Data Scientist at Walmart Labs, working on large-scale recommendation systems and conversational AI, including RAG-powered GroceryBot agents, vector-search personalization, and transformer-based ad relevance models.Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinInGet the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter// AbstractThe MLOps Community Podcast features
How Sierra AI Does Context Engineering
Zack Reneau-Wedeen is the Head of Product at Sierra, leading the development of enterprise-ready AI agents — from Agent Studio 2.0 to the Agent Data Platform — with a focus on richer workflows, persistent memory, and high-quality voice interactions.How Sierra Does Context Engineering, Zack Reneau-Wedeen // MLOps Podcast #350Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinInGet the newsletter:
Overcoming Challenges in AI Agent Deployment: The Sweet Spot for Governance and Security // Spencer Reagan // #349
Spencer Reagan leads R&D at Airia, working on secure AI-agent orchestration, data governance systems, and real-time signal fusion technologies for regulated and defense environments.Overcoming Challenges in AI Agent Deployment: The Sweet Spot for Governance and Security // MLOps Podcast #349 with Spencer Reagan, R&D at Airia.Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinInGet the ne
Hardening Agents for E-commerce Scale: From RL Alignment to Reliability // Panel 2
Thanks to Prosus Group for collaborating on the Agents in Production Virtual Conference 2025.Abstract //The discussion centers on highly technical yet practical themes, such as the use of advanced post-training techniques like Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) and Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) to ensure LLMs maintain stability while specializing for e-commerce domains. We compare the i
Building Cursor: A Fireside Chat with VP Solutions Ricky Doar
Ricky Doar is the VP of Solutions at Cursor, where he leads forward-deployed engineers. A seasoned product and technical leader with over a decade of experience in developer tools and data platforms, Ricky previously served as VP of Field Engineering at Vercel, where he led global technical solutions for the company's next-generation frontend platform.Prior to Vercel, Ricky held multiple leade
Relational Foundation Models: Unlocking the Next Frontier of Enterprise AI // Jure Leskovec // #348
Dr. Jure Leskovec is the Chief Scientist at Kumo.AI and a Stanford professor, working on relational foundation models and graph-transformer systems that bring enterprise databases into the foundation-model era.Relational Foundation Models: Unlocking the Next Frontier of Enterprise AI // MLOps Podcast #348 with Jure Leskovec, Professor and Chief Scientist, Stanford University and Kumo.AI.Join the C
Context Engineering, Context Rot, & Agentic Search with the CEO of Chroma, Jeff Huber
Jeff Huber is the CEO of Chroma, working on context engineering and building reliable retrieval infrastructure for AI systems. Context Engineering, Context Rot, & Agentic Search with the CEO of Chroma, Jeff Huber // MLOps Podcast #348.Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinInGet the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter// AbstractJeff Huber drops some hard truths a
Reliable Voice Agents
Brooke Hopkins is the CEO of Coval, a company making voice agents more reliable. Reliable Voice Agents // MLOps Podcast #347 with Brooke Hopkins, Founder of Coval.Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinInGet the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter// AbstractVoice AI is finally growing up—but not without drama. Brooke Hopkins joins Demetrios Brinkmann to unpack why mos
The Future of AI Operations: Insights from PwC AI Managed Services
Rani Radhakrishnan is a Principal at PwC US, leading work on AI-managed services, autonomous agents, and data-driven transformation for enterprises.The Future of AI Operations: Insights from PwC AI Managed Services // MLOps Podcast #345 with Rani Radhakrishnan, Principal, Technology Managed Services - AI, Data Analytics and Insights at PwC US.Huge thanks to PwC for supporting this episode!Join the
GPU Uptime with VAST Data CTO
Andy Pernsteiner is the Field CTO at VAST Data, working on large-scale AI infrastructure, serverless compute near data, and the rollout of VAST’s AI Operating System.The GPU Uptime Battle // MLOps Podcast #346 with Andy Pernsteiner, Field CTO of VAST Data.Huge thanks to VAST Data for supporting this episode!Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinInGet the newsletter: https://go.mlops
The Evolution of AI in Cyber Security // Jeff Schwartzentruber // #344
Dr. Jeff Schwartzentruber is a Senior Machine Learning Scientist at eSentire, working on anomaly detection pipelines and the use of large language models to enhance cybersecurity operations.The Evolution of AI in Cyber Security // MLOps Podcast #344 with Jeff Schwartzentruber, Staff Machine Learning Scientist at eSentire.Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinInGet the newsletter: ht
Thousands of Fine-Tuned Models
Jaipal Singh Goud is the CTO at Prem AI, working on model customization and privacy-preserving compute. This episode was recorded at the Plan B studios in Lugano, Switzerland. For more information, visit https://pow.space/How do fine-tuned models and RAG systems power personalized AI agents that learn, collaborate, and transform enterprise workflows? What kind of technical challenges do we need to
The Semantic Layer and AI Agents // David Jayatillake // #343
The Semantic Layer and AI Agents // MLOps Podcast #343 with David Jayatillake, VP of AI at Cube.dev.Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinInGet the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter// AbstractDavid Jayatillake argues that the real battle in data isn’t about AI — it’s about who controls the semantics. In this episode, he calls out how proprietary BI tools quietly lo
Building Claude Code: Origin, Story, Product Iterations, & What's Next // Siddharth Bidasaria // #342
Building Claude Code: Origin, Story, Product Iterations, & What's Next // MLOps Podcast #342 with Siddharth Bidasaria, Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic.Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinInGet the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter// AbstractDemetrios Brinkmann talks with Siddharth Bidasaria about Anthropic’s Claude code — how it was built, key feat
Building an Agentic AI Memory Framework
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