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Agentic Conversations (formally mlops.community)
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
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- Agentic Conversations (formally mlops.community)
From Slop Code to Software Factories
Two 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…
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Tim O’Reilly
A 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…
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AI Agents Need a Babysitter
AI 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…
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Token Maxxing Is Over and Here Is What Comes Next
What 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…
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The World Wild Web & Bots With Buying Power
An 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…
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Agents Acting Safely on Our Behalf
What 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…
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Bridging the Gap Between AI Builders and Domain Experts
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…
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Inside a Game Where AI Agents Never Sleep
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…
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How a Logistics Giant Keeps AI Data Locked Down
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…
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The Caveman Prompting Challenge
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…
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AWS Has 16,000 APIs. Can MCP Handle It?
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…
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Skills over MCP on the streets of Tokyo
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…
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Walking Tokyo Talking Agent Protocols
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…
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Why Cost Per Million Tokens Is A Useless KPI?
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…
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The Five-Layer Cake Approach to Scaling AI Without Wasting Money
In this episode of Agentic Conversations, we sit down with Ambud Sharma, Principal Engineer at Pinterest, responsible for general technology efficiency, fresh…
- Agentic Conversations (formally mlops.community)
The Winchester Mystery House Problem in AI Development
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…
- Agentic Conversations (formally mlops.community)
How Predictive Analytics Stops Budget Overruns Before They Happen?
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…
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How To Delegate To An Agent Like You Would An Employee?
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…
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Why Your AI Bill Will Double Before It Gets Better
In 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…
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MCP Goes Stateless
David 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…
Agentic Conversations (formally mlops.community)AI Hype vs. Real Value
Manish 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…
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The Creator of FastMCP Explains the Future of MCP
In 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…
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What Happens When Every Developer Has 20 AI Agents?
In 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…
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AI Agents Should Be Treated Like Hackers
In 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…
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Developers May Stop Depending on Libraries
In this episode of Agentic Conversations, we're joined by Shaun Smith, software engineer, open source advocate, and contributor at Hugging Face, to explore how…
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10 Cities. 4 Countries. One Unexpected MCP Lesson.
In this episode, we're joined by Ben Morss, Developer Advocate at DeepL, who spent months traveling across North America and Europe teaching developers about…
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The Next Programming Language Is English
In this episode, we're joined by Cornelia Davis, Developer Advocate at Temporal and a longtime software architect who has spent decades helping shape modern…
Agentic Conversations (formally mlops.community)Omnigent: Composition, Control, and Collaboration for AI Agents
Denny Lee is PM Director, Startups & Ecosystem at Databricks, a longtime Apache Spark, MLflow, and Delta Lake contributor — and one of the people behind…
- Agentic Conversations (formally mlops.community)
The Current State of Agentic Retrieval - Qdrant Roundtable
Qdrant Roundtable episode: The Current State of Agentic Retrieval Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter…
Agentic Conversations (formally mlops.community)AI Agents in Healthcare?
Kingsley 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…
Agentic Conversations (formally mlops.community)Coding Agents Are Secretly General Agents
In 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…
Agentic Conversations (formally mlops.community)The Dark Side of MCP Servers
Sam 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…
Agentic Conversations (formally mlops.community)Sandboxing, Agent Harnesses, and Agent Teamwork
Shahram Anver is the Co-Founder and CEO of Cleric, the autonomous AI SRE that investigates and root-causes production issues like an experienced teammate —…
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Zipline Roundtable episode: Building Real-Time ML Systems with Zipline + Chronon
Zipline Roundtable episode: Building Real-Time ML Systems with Zipline + ChrononJoin the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinInGet the newsletter…
Agentic Conversations (formally mlops.community)MCP Servers Are Becoming the UI for AI Agents
Naseem 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…
Agentic Conversations (formally mlops.community)Agents & the $40M Bet on Multiplayer AI
Stanislas 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…
Agentic Conversations (formally mlops.community)From Single-Player to Multi-Player: Operating AI Agents at Scale
James 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…
Agentic Conversations (formally mlops.community)The Control-vs-Magic Spectrum Building Agents
Thiago 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…
Agentic Conversations (formally mlops.community)Logs Are All You Need: Rethinking Observability with AI Agents
Sherwood Callaway is the founder of Sazabi (YC P26), the AI-native observability platform built for engineering teams who ship fast. He previously founded and…
Agentic Conversations (formally mlops.community)AI Is Fast. AI Projects Are Slow. Let's Fix That.
Joe Maionchi (Co-founder & COO) and Rod Christensen (Co-founder & Chief Architect) of RocketRide join the MLOps Community to walk through AIDE — the AI…
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Architecting Modern AI Systems: Platforms, Agents, and Integration
BuzzHPC Roundtable episode: Architecting Modern AI Systems: Platforms, Agents, and Integration Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the…
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[Special Announcement] MLOps Community Linux Foundation
Big 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…
Agentic Conversations (formally mlops.community)Inside Just Eat's AI Lab: Voice Agents & Agentic Commerce
Guthrie Cooper (Senior Group Product Manager, AI & Robotics) and Nidhi Sharma (Global Head of Engineering AI & Incubation) from Just Eat Takeaway.com join the…
Agentic Conversations (formally mlops.community)Autonomous Agents at Work: From OpenClaw Hype to Enterprise Reality
Pramod Krishnan is a Managing Director - AI Managed Services at PwC, specializing in enterprise AI transformation — helping large organizations move from AI…
Agentic Conversations (formally mlops.community)Agents are Just While Loops
Hamza 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…
Agentic Conversations (formally mlops.community)The Latency Goldilocks Zone Explained
Rafael (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…
Agentic Conversations (formally mlops.community)Building MCP Before MCP Existed: Inside Despegar's Sofia Agent
Nicolas Alejandro Bogliolo is the AI PM at Despegar, the largest online travel agency in Latin America, and the engineer-product-hybrid behind Sofia, the GenAI…
Agentic Conversations (formally mlops.community)Voice Agent Use Cases
This episode is brought to you by the MLflow team. Check out more information at MLflow.org. What does it actually take to build voice AI at a…
Agentic Conversations (formally mlops.community)The Creator of Superpowers: Why Real Agentic Engineering Beats Vibe Coding
Jesse Vincent is the Founder & CEO of Prime Radiant and creator of Superpowers — the most-used Claude Code plugin in the world. He built the first agentic…
Agentic Conversations (formally mlops.community)It's 2026, and We're Still Talking Evals
Maggie Konstanty is an AI Product Manager at Prosus, one of the world's largest consumer internet companies, where she builds and evaluates AI agents for food…
Agentic Conversations (formally mlops.community)Why Agents are Driving Software Development to the Cloud
This episode is brought to you by Hyperbolic and the MLflow team. Check out more information at hyperbolic.ai and MLflow.org. Why AI Coding Agents Are Moving…
Agentic Conversations (formally mlops.community)The Modern Software Engineer
This episode is brought to you by the MLflow team. Check out more information at MLflow.org. Mihail Eric is Head of AI at Monaco and Adjunct Lecturer at…
Agentic Conversations (formally mlops.community)We Cut LLM Latency by 70% in Production
Maher Hanafi is an engineering leader who went from zero AI experience to self-hosting LLMs at enterprise scale — managing GPU costs, optimizing inference with…
Agentic Conversations (formally mlops.community)Getting Humans Out of the Way: How to Work with Teams of Agents
Rob Ennals is the creator of Broomy, an open-source IDE designed for working effectively with many agents in parallel. He previously worked at Meta, Quora…
Agentic Conversations (formally mlops.community)Fixing GPU Starvation in Large-Scale Distributed Training
Kashish Mittal is a Staff Software Engineer at Uber, working on large-scale distributed systems and core backend infrastructure. Fixing GPU Starvation in…
Agentic Conversations (formally mlops.community)Spec Driven Development, Workflows, and the Recent Coding Agent Conference
Jens Bodal is a Senior Software Engineer II working independently, focusing on backend systems, software architecture, and building scalable solutions across…
Agentic Conversations (formally mlops.community)Operationalizing AI Agents: From Experimentation to Production // Databricks Roundtable
Databricks Roundtable episode: Operationalizing AI Agents: From Experimentation to Production. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the…
Agentic Conversations (formally mlops.community)arrowspace: Vector Spaces and Graph Wiring
Lorenzo Moriondo is a Technical Lead for AI at tuned.org.uk, working on AI agent protocols, graph-based search, and production-grade LLM systems. arrowspace…
Agentic Conversations (formally mlops.community)Agentic Marketplace
Donné Stevenson is a Machine Learning Engineer at Prosus, working on scalable ML infrastructure and productionizing GenAI systems across portfolio companies…
Agentic Conversations (formally mlops.community)Durable Execution and Modern Distributed Systems
Johann Schleier-Smith is the Technical Lead for AI at Temporal Technologies, working on reliable infrastructure for production AI systems and long-running…