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How AI Is Built

How AI Is Built

Nicolay Gerold 63 Episodes Sep 11, 2025

Real engineers. Real deployments. Zero hype. We interview the top engineers who actually put AI in production. Learn what the best engineers have figured out through years of experience. Hosted by Nicolay Gerold, CEO of Aisbach and CTO at Proxdeal and Multiply Content.

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#056 Building Solo: How One Engineer Uses AI Agents to Ship Production Code
#056 Building Solo: How One Engineer Uses AI Agents to Ship Production Code Sep 11, 2025 01:12:24 Nicolay here,Most AI coding conversations focus on which model to use. This one focuses on workflow - the specific commands, git strategies, and review processes that let one engineer ship production code with AI agents doing 80% of the work.Today I have the chance to talk to Kieran Klaassen, who built Cora (an AI email management tool) almost entirely solo using AI agents.His approach: treat AI a
#055 Embedding Intelligence: AI's Move to the Edge
#055 Embedding Intelligence: AI's Move to the Edge Aug 13, 2025 01:05:35 Nicolay here,while everyone races to cloud-scale LLMs, Pete Warden is solving AI problems by going completely offline. No network connectivity required.Today I have the chance to talk to Pete Warden, CEO of Useful Sensors and author of the TinyML book.His philosophy: if you can't explain to users exactly what happens to their data, your privacy model is broken.Key Insight: The Real World Action Ga
#054 Building Frankenstein Models with Model Merging and the Future of AI
#054 Building Frankenstein Models with Model Merging and the Future of AI Jul 29, 2025 01:06:55 Nicolay here,most AI conversations focus on training bigger models with more compute. This one explores the counterintuitive world where averaging weights from different models creates better performance than expensive post-training.Today I have the chance to talk to Maxime Labonne, who's a researcher at Liquid AI and the architect of some of the most popular open source models on Hugging Face.He
#053 AI in the Terminal: Enhancing Coding with Warp
#053 AI in the Terminal: Enhancing Coding with Warp Jul 23, 2025 01:04:30 Nicolay here,Most AI coding tools obsess over automating everything. This conversation focuses on the rightbalance between human skill and AI assistance - where manual context beats web search every time.Today I have the chance to talk to Ben Holmes, a software engineer at Warp, where they're building theAI-first terminal.Manual context engineering trumps automated web search for getting accurate
#052 Don't Build Models, Build Systems That Build Models
#052 Don't Build Models, Build Systems That Build Models Jul 1, 2025 00:59:22 Nicolay here,Today I have the chance to talk to Charles from Modal, who went from doing a PhD on neural network optimization in the 2010s - when ML engineers could build models with a soldering iron and some sticks - to architecting serverless infrastructure for AI models. Modal is about removing barriers so anyone can spin up a hundred GPUs in seconds.The critical insight that stuck with me: "Don
#051 Build systems that can be debugged at 4am by tired humans with no context
#051 Build systems that can be debugged at 4am by tired humans with no context Jun 17, 2025 01:05:51 Nicolay here,Today I have the chance to talk to Charity Majors, CEO and co-founder of Honeycomb, who recently has been writing about the cost crisis in observability."Your source of truth is production, not your IDE - and if you can't understand your code there, you're flying blind."The key insight is architecturally simple but operationally transformative: replace your 10-20 observability tools w
#050 Bringing LLMs to Production: Delete Frameworks, Avoid Finetuning, Ship Faster
#050 Bringing LLMs to Production: Delete Frameworks, Avoid Finetuning, Ship Faster May 27, 2025 01:06:57 Nicolay here,Most AI developers are drowning in frameworks and hype. This conversation is about cutting through the noise and actually getting something into production.Today I have the chance to talk to Paul Iusztin, who's spent 8 years in AI - from writing CUDA kernels in C++ to building modern LLM applications. He currently writes about production AI systems and is building his own AI writing a
#050 TAKEAWAYS Bringing LLMs to Production: Delete Frameworks, Avoid Finetuning, Ship Faster
#050 TAKEAWAYS Bringing LLMs to Production: Delete Frameworks, Avoid Finetuning, Ship Faster May 27, 2025 00:11:00 Nicolay here,Most AI developers are drowning in frameworks and hype. This conversation is about cutting through the noise and actually getting something into production.Today I have the chance to talk to Paul Iusztin, who's spent 8 years in AI - from writing CUDA kernels in C++ to building modern LLM applications. He currently writes about production AI systems and is building his own AI writing a
#049 BAML: The Programming Language That Turns LLMs into Predictable Functions
#049 BAML: The Programming Language That Turns LLMs into Predictable Functions May 20, 2025 01:02:38 Nicolay here,I think by now we are done with marveling at the latest benchmark scores of the models. It doesn’t tell us much anymore that the latest generation outscores the previous by a few basis points.If you don’t know how the LLM performs on your task, you are just duct taping LLMs into your systems.If your LLM-powered app can’t survive a malformed emoji, you’re shipping liability, not softwa
#049 TAKEAWAYS BAML: The Programming Language That Turns LLMs into Predictable Functions
#049 TAKEAWAYS BAML: The Programming Language That Turns LLMs into Predictable Functions May 20, 2025 01:12:34 Nicolay here,I think by now we are done with marveling at the latest benchmark scores of the models. It doesn’t tell us much anymore that the latest generation outscores the previous by a few basis points.If you don’t know how the LLM performs on your task, you are just duct taping LLMs into your systems.If your LLM-powered app can’t survive a malformed emoji, you’re shipping liability, not softwa
#048 TAKEAWAYS Why Your AI Agents Need Permission to Act, Not Just Read
#048 TAKEAWAYS Why Your AI Agents Need Permission to Act, Not Just Read May 13, 2025 00:07:06 Nicolay here,most AI conversations obsess over capabilities. This one focuses on constraints - the right ones that make AI actually useful rather than just impressive demos.Today I have the chance to talk to Dexter Horthy, who recently put out a long piece called the “12-factor agents”.It’s like the 10 commandments, but for building agents.One of it is “Contact human with tool calls”: the LLM can
#048 Why Your AI Agents Need Permission to Act, Not Just Read
#048 Why Your AI Agents Need Permission to Act, Not Just Read May 11, 2025 00:57:02 Nicolay here,most AI conversations obsess over capabilities. This one focuses on constraints - the right ones that make AI actually useful rather than just impressive demos.Today I have the chance to talk to Dexter Horthy, who recently put out a long piece called the “12-factor agents”.It’s like the 10 commandments, but for building agents.One of it is “Contact human with tool calls”: the LLM can

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