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Demetrios 539 Episodes Oct 12, 2026

Relaxed Conversations around getting AI into production, whatever shape that may come in (agentic, traditional ML, LLMs, Vibes, etc)

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Bridging the Gap Between AI Builders and Domain Experts
Bridging the Gap Between AI Builders and Domain Experts Oct 12, 2026 00:22:36 Everyone is racing to build one agent that can do everything. Justin Schroeder, co-founder of Standard Agents, thinks the future looks more like thousands of tiny ones. Ahead of his talk on domain-specific agents at AGNTCon + MCPCon North America, he explains why tightly scoped agents might be the smarter bet, even if it feels like a step back toward the single-purpose machine learning models of a
Inside a Game Where AI Agents Never Sleep
Inside a Game Where AI Agents Never Sleep Oct 8, 2026 01:01:03 What happens to an MMORPG when half the players never log off? Issac Lee, who runs AI and blockchain experiments at NEXUS, has been testing that idea. His team is filling game worlds with agent players instead of scripted NPCs, so a new title feels alive from day one.We get into why agent-generated content could be the next step after studio-made and user-generated games. We also cover how agent p
How a Logistics Giant Keeps AI Data Locked Down
How a Logistics Giant Keeps AI Data Locked Down Oct 5, 2026 00:20:34 Picture a startup with ten engineers hammering away on AI and one person lying awake over a $20,000 bill that hasn't arrived yet. That's the scenario we put to Jason Ward, who handles FinOps for AI at C.H. Robinson and recently joined the FinOps Foundation's AI working group.Jason's first answer is not glamorous: tag every AI resource so you know who owns it. The rest of the episod
The Caveman Prompting Challenge
The Caveman Prompting Challenge Oct 1, 2026 00:44:07 Caveman prompting has one rule: why use many words when few do the trick? It saves tokens on the way in and on the way out. Push it too far, though, and the output falls apart. So how far is too far? Nobody has benchmarked it yet, and that question opens our conversation with James Barney, Head of Forward Labs at MetLife.James spends his days connecting new AI capabilities to old business problems
AWS Has 16,000 APIs. Can MCP Handle It?
AWS Has 16,000 APIs. Can MCP Handle It? Sep 28, 2026 00:41:38 What happens after you’ve built your first MCP server and actually have to make it work in the real world?In this episode, James Ward dives into the more advanced side of MCP: observability, evals, tool design, code mode, authentication, and the challenges that appear once agents start using your server at scale.We also get into how AWS thinks about MCP across roughly 16,000 APIs, why inefficient
Skills over MCP on the streets of Tokyo
Skills over MCP on the streets of Tokyo Sep 24, 2026 00:32:30 Tool descriptions tell an agent what a tool does. They don't tell it how to use five tools together, in the right order, following your conventions. That gap is where this conversation lives.Filmed at AGNTCon + MCPCon in Tokyo with Ola Hungerford, Principal Engineer for AI Enablement at Nordstrom and a maintainer of the Model Context Protocol, who spent the last several months turning a pattern ev
Walking Tokyo Talking Agent Protocols
Walking Tokyo Talking Agent Protocols Sep 18, 2026 00:28:49 Two people, a wrong turn into a back alley, a community garden, and about thirty minutes of arguing about protocols on the streets of Tokyo.The guest is Angie Jones, VP of Developer Experience at the Agentic AI Foundation, fresh off launching AGNTCon + MCPCon in China before the Tokyo stop. She opens with what she learned there: a mobile-first, super-app world where the integration problem most of
Why Cost Per Million Tokens Is A Useless KPI?
Why Cost Per Million Tokens Is A Useless KPI? Sep 14, 2026 00:38:49 A year ago, Palo Alto Networks built dashboards to track AI spend. Today those dashboards are useless, and the team that built them thinks that's the whole story.Recorded at FinOps X in San Diego, this conversation brings together Abhinav Lad, who leads cloud and AI finance at Palo Alto Networks, and Kuntal Patel, who runs the cloud engineering function behind it. They explain what happened wh
The Five-Layer Cake Approach to Scaling AI Without Wasting Money
The Five-Layer Cake Approach to Scaling AI Without Wasting Money Sep 4, 2026 00:38:55 In this episode of Agentic Conversations, we sit down with Ambud Sharma, Principal Engineer at Pinterest, responsible for general technology efficiency, fresh off delivering a controversial keynote on AI infrastructure optimization at scale.Ambud walks us through his Five Layer Cake framework - a structured approach to driving efficiency across every level of the AI stack, from silicon and hardwar
The Winchester Mystery House Problem in AI Development
The Winchester Mystery House Problem in AI Development Aug 24, 2026 00:59:41 AI models are starting to act like appliances, locked into one narrow way of working, instead of the flexible infrastructure they used to be. Drew Breunig, an AI and data strategist working with the Overture Maps Foundation, joins us to explain why, and what it means for anyone building something that doesn't look like Claude Code.Drew walks through his "Winchester Mystery House" ide
How Predictive Analytics Stops Budget Overruns Before They Happen?
How Predictive Analytics Stops Budget Overruns Before They Happen? Aug 20, 2026 00:29:23 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?
How To Delegate To An Agent Like You Would An Employee? Aug 17, 2026 00:55:15 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

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