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Interview based show around AI Engineering. Episodes are also available as video on Youtube. Show notes have a summary and full transcript.

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Scaling Past Informal AI - Carina Hong, Axiom Math thumbnail

Scaling Past Informal AI - Carina Hong, Axiom Math

3 Jun 2026

Formal verification is positioned as a critical tool for advancing AI by ensuring system correctness through mathematical rigor, exemplified by Axiom Math's achievements, tools like Lean, challenges in AI generalization, and the vision of AI as a "superhuman mathematician" through verified reasoning.

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GitHub's plan for Agents  Kyle Daigle, GitHub thumbnail

GitHub's plan for Agents Kyle Daigle, GitHub

2 Jun 2026

Advanced AI integration in developer workflows leverages tools like GitHub Copilot and agentic systems to automate tasks and boost productivity, while addressing challenges like skill bloat, security, open-source trust issues, and the shift to modular AI capabilities in enterprise and collaborative environments.

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Why Video Agent models are next  Ethan He, xAI Grok Imagine thumbnail

Why Video Agent models are next Ethan He, xAI Grok Imagine

1 Jun 2026

Advancements in AI research through community-driven knowledge sharing, challenges in scaling video models, technical innovations like vision transformers and diffusion models, and the integration of language models in generative media, alongside hurdles in training efficiency and sustainable development.

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The Age of Async Agents  Cognition's Walden Yan & OpenInspect's Cole Murray thumbnail

The Age of Async Agents Cognition's Walden Yan & OpenInspect's Cole Murray

28 May 2026

The evolution of AI agent development shifts toward autonomous workflows via tools like Devin for code generation and OpenInspect for cloud management, addressing growth, infrastructure challenges, security, scalability, enterprise adoption, open-source initiatives, diverse non-engineering use cases, and the role of human oversight in AI-native coding.

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ESMFold2: The Bitter Lesson is Coming for Proteins - Alex Rives, BioHub thumbnail

ESMFold2: The Bitter Lesson is Coming for Proteins - Alex Rives, BioHub

27 May 2026

ESMC leverages transformer-based models trained on 6.8 billion protein sequences to predict structures, design functional proteins, and uncover evolutionary patterns through scalable, data-driven approaches, while balancing evolutionary constraints with interpretability and addressing limitations in data diversity and model generalizability.

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Giving Agents Computers  Ivan Burazin, Daytona thumbnail

Giving Agents Computers Ivan Burazin, Daytona

21 May 2026

A company evolved from pre-Docker browser-based IDEs and developer events to modern sandboxing platforms prioritizing AI agent infrastructure, leveraging bare-metal compute for scalability and addressing market demands with open-source strategies, spiky workloads, and future AI Cloud expansion amid GPU shortages.

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Railway: The Agent-Native Cloud  Jake Cooper thumbnail

Railway: The Agent-Native Cloud Jake Cooper

20 May 2026

Railway streamlines app deployment with AI-driven tools, environment cloning, and parallel testing, leveraging kernel patching and custom storage while addressing challenges like compute scarcity and AI agent coordination, alongside critiques of Git/GitHub and traditional software lifecycle practices.

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Doing Vibe Physics  Alex Lupsasca, OpenAI thumbnail

Doing Vibe Physics Alex Lupsasca, OpenAI

5 May 2026

AI is advancing theoretical physics by rapidly solving complex problems like quantum field theory calculations and simulating models such as SYK, though it still relies on human collaboration for original insights and contextual validation, reshaping research methodologies and education.

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