Chain of Thought | AI Agents, Infrastructure & Engineering

By Conor Bronsdon

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AI is reshaping infrastructure, strategy, and entire industries. Host Conor Bronsdon talks to the engineers, founders, and researchers building breakthrough AI systems about what it actually takes to ship AI in production, where the opportunities lie, and how leaders should think about the strategic bets ahead. Chain of Thought translates technical depth into actionable insights for builders and decision-makers. New episodes weekly. Conor Bronsdon is an angel investor in AI and dev tools, Technical Ecosystem Lead at Modular, and previously led growth at AI startups Galileo and LinearB. Disclaimer: All views, opinions and statements expressed on this account are solely my own and are made in my personal capacity. They do not reflect, and should not be construed as reflecting, the views, positions, or policies of Modular. This account is not affiliated with, authorized by, or endorsed by Modular in any way.

Episode Date
The First Fully Autonomous AI Attack Is 18 Months Away | Kristin Lovejoy
Jun 11, 2026
The AI Framework Era Is Over: Why Context Is the Moat | Jerry Liu
Jun 03, 2026
We Built Agents, Nobody Built HR | Tyler Akidau, Redpanda
May 27, 2026
How Superhuman Built AI Into a 100ms Product | Loïc Houssier
May 22, 2026
The AI Hiring Doom Loop: Applications Up 239%, Hires Down 75%
May 06, 2026
Every AI Agent Has an Evaluation Gap | Alex Ratner, Snorkel AI
Apr 29, 2026
250,000 Lines of Code/Week: Inside an AMD VP's Agent-First Workflow | Anush Elangovan
Apr 22, 2026
Hallucinations Are a Data Architecture Problem | Sudhir Hasbe, Neo4j
Apr 16, 2026
Why LLMs Are Plausibility Engines, Not Truth Engines | Dan Klein
Apr 08, 2026
Agent Memory: The Last Battleground in the AI Stack | Richmond Alake, Oracle
Apr 02, 2026
Context Poisoning Is Killing Your AI Agents: How to Stop It
Mar 25, 2026
I Started r/AI_Agents and Now I'm Launching a VC Fund
Mar 10, 2026
I Built an AI Coworker That Runs 90% of My Day
Mar 04, 2026
How Intercom Cut $250K/Month by Ditching GPT for Qwen
Feb 26, 2026
How Block Deployed AI Agents to 12,000 Employees in 8 Weeks w/ MCP | Angie Jones
Jan 21, 2026
Gemini 3 & Robot Dogs: Inside Google DeepMind's AI Experiments | Paige Bailey
Jan 14, 2026
Explaining Eval Engineering | Galileo's Vikram Chatterji
Dec 19, 2025
Debunking AI's Environmental Panic | Andy Masley
Nov 26, 2025
The Critical Infrastructure Behind the AI Boom | Cisco CPO Jeetu Patel
Nov 19, 2025
Beyond Transformers: How Liquid AI Is Rethinking LLM Architecture | Maxime Labonne
Nov 12, 2025
Architecting AI Agents: The Shift from Models to Systems | Aishwarya Srinivasan
Oct 08, 2025
The Accidental Algorithm | Humans of AI Crossover with Writer's Melisa Russak
Oct 01, 2025
After Code Gen: What Graphite Is Building for the Post-AI Dev Stack | Greg Foster
Sep 24, 2025
Vercel's Playbook for AI Agents: From Vibe Check to Production | Malte Ubl
Sep 10, 2025
From Demo to Defensibility: How to Build an AI Business that Lasts | Aurimas Griciūnas
Aug 27, 2025
Mindset Over Metrics: How to Approach AI Engineering | Hamel Husain
Aug 20, 2025
How AI Velocity is Rewriting the Rules for Engineering Leaders | ChatPRD's Claire Vo
Aug 13, 2025
Building an AI-Native Startup | GrowthX's Marcel Santilli
Aug 06, 2025
AI's Trillion-Dollar Healthcare Bet | Corti's Andreas Cleve
Jul 30, 2025
Mastering Multi-Agent Systems | MongoDB’s Mikiko Chandrasekhar
Jul 23, 2025
The AI Agent Trust Gap: Bridging Risk to Reliability | Elastic’s Philipp Krenn
Jul 16, 2025
Architecting Reliable Agentic AI | Cisco’s Giovanna Carofiglio on the AGNTCY Collective
Jul 09, 2025
Taste Is The New Moat | Why Customer Obsession Wins in the AI Era
Jul 02, 2025
The Emerging AI Agent Stack | CrewAI’s João Moura
Jun 25, 2025
AMD's Challenge to NVIDIA: The Open Ecosystem Bet | Anush Elangovan & Sharon Zhou
Jun 18, 2025
Your Key to AI Success is Hiding in Plain Sight | Cohesity's Greg Statton
Jun 11, 2025
Why Gamers Paved the Way for AI | Databricks' Carly Taylor
Jun 04, 2025
The 2025 AI Shift: From Chat to Task Completion & Reliable Action | Galileo Founders
May 28, 2025
Amplitude's AI Playbook: How Wade Chambers Builds for the Agentic Future
May 21, 2025
First Code, Then AGI: Software’s Event Horizon with Poolside Founders Jason Warner & Eiso Kant
May 14, 2025
AI's Two Extremes – Foundations & The Frontier | Databricks’ Denny Lee
May 07, 2025
Why Enterprises Need a Different Approach to AI Agents | Lyzr’s Siva Surendira
Apr 30, 2025
Breaking the Language Barrier: Smartling's AI Translation Pipeline | Olga Beregovaya
Apr 23, 2025
Low-Code AI: From Requirements to Apps in Minutes | OutSystems' Rodrigo Coutinho
Apr 16, 2025
AI Won't Solve Your Toughest Engineering Problems | Honeycomb’s Charity Majors
Apr 09, 2025
Inside IBM's watsonx: Building Enterprise AI That Ships | Dr. Maryam Ashoori
Apr 02, 2025
Information Symmetry: DevRev's Bet on AI-Driven Enterprise Decisions | Manoj Agarwal
Mar 26, 2025
The Agent Bubble Debate | Spot AI's Kelly Vaughn
Mar 19, 2025
Using AI to Modernize Your Legacy Applications | MongoDB’s Rachelle Palmer
Mar 12, 2025
AI in 2025: Agents & The Rise of Evaluation-Driven Development
Mar 05, 2025
The Making of Gemini 2.0: DeepMind's Approach to AI Development and Deployment | Logan Kilpatrick
Feb 12, 2025
How DeepSeek Changed the AI Race Overnight
Feb 05, 2025
AI, Open Source & Developer Safety | Block’s Rizel Scarlett
Jan 29, 2025
AI in 2025: Agents & The Rise of Evaluation Driven Development
Jan 15, 2025
AI Infrastructure & the Evolution of RAG | Weaviate's Bob van Luijt
Jan 08, 2025
Beyond Chatbots: How Twilio Uses AI to Strengthen Human Connection | Vinnie Giarrusso
Dec 18, 2024
The Enterprise AI Deployment Playbook | ServiceTitan, Indeed & Twilio
Dec 11, 2024
Practical Lessons for GenAI Evals | Chip Huyen & Vivienne Zhang
Dec 04, 2024
Why Most Enterprise AI Projects Fail to Show ROI | HP, ServiceNow & Accenture
Nov 27, 2024
GenAI Predictions for 2025 | Databricks & Cohere
Nov 20, 2024
Got Agents? Agentic Workflows & Architecture | Weaviate, Unstructured & CrewAI
Nov 13, 2024
The State of AI: Open-Source Models & Enterprise Trust | May Habib
Nov 06, 2024
Welcome to Chain of Thought
Oct 29, 2024