Agentic Conversations (formally mlops.community)
by Demetrios
Latest episode
Why Stripe Cut 500,000 Internal Docs Down to 5,000?
Why Stripe Cut 500,000 Internal Docs Down to 5,000?
About this podcast
Relaxed conversations and technical deep dives around AI Agents. This Show is brought to you by the Agentic AI Foundation where the leading agentic open-source projects like MCP, Agents.md, and Goose live. See more at aaif.io
Episodes
The newest 50 of 565 episodes
- Why Stripe Cut 500,000 Internal Docs Down to 5,000? · 33 minWhat happens when AI agents start relying on the same messy docs your team already struggles to search? Demetrios hops into a Waymo in San Francisco with Dave Nunez, founder and…
- My AI Agent Bought Me A Car · 35 minSam Herring’s first real test of Hermes Agent was a shopping tool that matched clothes to photos of ancient pottery. A few months later, the same agent was checking government…
- Cut One AI Cost and Two More Grow Back · 42 minWhat does AI really cost once thousands of people inside a company start using it? Ioannis Zempekakis, Director of AI at Prosus, has been running agents in production since 2024…
- How Stanford Teaches AI Coding Now · 44 minWhat does it take to build AI agents that deliver useful, reliable work? Stanford lecturer and Monaco Head of AI Mihail Eric joins Demetrios for a conversation inside a Waymo…
- From Slop Code to Software Factories · 47 minTwo people, one tandem bike, and a lot of near misses along Amsterdam’s canals. Dexter Horthy, CEO and co-founder of HumanLayer and the person who coined “context engineering,”…
- Tim O’Reilly · 34 minA large language model knows everything and nothing at the same time. Tim O’Reilly, founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, joins us ahead of his keynote at AGNTCon + MCPCon North…
- AI Agents Need a Babysitter · 46 minAI can write your code, choose its own tools, and book your next trip. But who checks that it actually did the job? In this episode of Debug Mode, we explore what it takes to…
- Token Maxxing Is Over and Here Is What Comes Next · 35 minWhat happens when you give 200 engineers who have barely touched AI a coding assistant and a six-month deadline to rebuild their platform? Pepijn Senders, a principal engineer…
- The World Wild Web & Bots With Buying Power · 50 minAn AI slips out of its sandbox. A chatbot won’t explain your cat’s stripes. And your next shopping spree might not involve you clicking anything. This episode asks whether…
- Agents Acting Safely on Our Behalf · 23 minWhat happens to the web when the ones browsing it are no longer people? Sarah Drasner, Area Tech Lead at Google, sits down with us ahead of her Agentic Web keynote at AGNTCon +…
- Bridging the Gap Between AI Builders and Domain Experts · 23 minEveryone 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…
- Inside a Game Where AI Agents Never Sleep · 1 h 1 minWhat 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…
- How a Logistics Giant Keeps AI Data Locked Down · 21 minPicture 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…
- The Caveman Prompting Challenge · 44 minCaveman 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…
- AWS Has 16,000 APIs. Can MCP Handle It? · 42 minWhat 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…
- Skills over MCP on the streets of Tokyo · 33 minTool 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…
- Walking Tokyo Talking Agent Protocols · 29 minTwo 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…
- Why Cost Per Million Tokens Is A Useless KPI? · 39 minA 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…
- The Five-Layer Cake Approach to Scaling AI Without Wasting Money · 39 minIn this episode of Agentic Conversations, we sit down with Ambud Sharma, Principal Engineer at Pinterest, responsible for general technology efficiency, fresh off delivering a…
- The Winchester Mystery House Problem in AI Development · 60 minAI 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…
- How Predictive Analytics Stops Budget Overruns Before They Happen? · 29 minEvery 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…
- How To Delegate To An Agent Like You Would An Employee? · 55 minOpenAI'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…
- Why Your AI Bill Will Double Before It Gets Better · 32 minIn 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…
- MCP Goes Stateless · 52 minDavid 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…
- AI Hype vs. Real Value · 43 minManish 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…
- The Creator of FastMCP Explains the Future of MCP · 55 minIn 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…
- What Happens When Every Developer Has 20 AI Agents? · 35 minIn 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…
- AI Agents Should Be Treated Like Hackers · 32 minIn 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…
- Developers May Stop Depending on Libraries · 47 minIn 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…
- 10 Cities. 4 Countries. One Unexpected MCP Lesson. · 22 minIn 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…
- The Next Programming Language Is English · 38 minIn 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…
- Omnigent: Composition, Control, and Collaboration for AI Agents · 58 minDenny 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…
- The Current State of Agentic Retrieval - Qdrant Roundtable · 59 minQdrant Roundtable episode: The Current State of Agentic Retrieval Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter…
- AI Agents in Healthcare? · 39 minKingsley 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…
- Coding Agents Are Secretly General Agents · 1 h 12 minIn 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…
- The Dark Side of MCP Servers · 1 h 9 minSam 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…
- Sandboxing, Agent Harnesses, and Agent Teamwork · 1 h 19 minShahram 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…
- Zipline Roundtable episode: Building Real-Time ML Systems with Zipline + Chronon · 51 minZipline Roundtable episode: Building Real-Time ML Systems with Zipline + ChrononJoin the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinInGet the newsletter…
- MCP Servers Are Becoming the UI for AI Agents · 47 minNaseem 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…
- Agents & the $40M Bet on Multiplayer AI · 1 h 20 minStanislas 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…
- From Single-Player to Multi-Player: Operating AI Agents at Scale · 56 minJames 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…
- The Control-vs-Magic Spectrum Building Agents · 43 minThiago 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…
- Logs Are All You Need: Rethinking Observability with AI Agents · 47 minSherwood 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…
- AI Is Fast. AI Projects Are Slow. Let's Fix That. · 57 minJoe 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…
- Architecting Modern AI Systems: Platforms, Agents, and Integration · 57 minBuzzHPC Roundtable episode: Architecting Modern AI Systems: Platforms, Agents, and Integration Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter…
- [Special Announcement] MLOps Community Linux Foundation · 2 minBig 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…
- Inside Just Eat's AI Lab: Voice Agents & Agentic Commerce · 1 h 18 minGuthrie 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…
- Autonomous Agents at Work: From OpenClaw Hype to Enterprise Reality · 42 minPramod Krishnan is a Managing Director - AI Managed Services at PwC, specializing in enterprise AI transformation — helping large organizations move from AI experimentation to…
- Agents are Just While Loops · 41 minHamza 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…
- The Latency Goldilocks Zone Explained · 48 minRafael (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…
