Podcast Episodes

The Hidden Failure Modes of AI Agents

Ben Lorica speaks with Helen Gu, CEO of InsightFinder AI and professor at North Carolina State University, about why reliability is becoming a centra…

10 hours ago

The Data Stack Wasn't Built for AI — Here's What Comes Next

Ben Lorica talks with Chang She, co-founder and CEO of LanceDB, about the limitations of traditional analytical data tools like Pandas and Parquet wh…

1 week ago

The SaaSpocalypse Is Coming — But Don't Count Out the Incumbents

Ben Lorica is joined by Evangelos Simoudis for a wide-ranging check-in on how AI is reshaping mobility, enterprise software, and corporate strategy.

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1 week, 5 days ago

AI Agents Are Implemented, Not Adopted

Ben Lorica speaks with Hamza Tahir, co-founder of Kitaru, about what it takes to move AI agents from demos to production. They discuss the difference…

2 weeks ago

Why Your AI Agent Isn't Ready to Ship (And How to Know When It Is)

In this episode, host Ben Lorica sits down with Zhou Yu, associate professor of computer science at Columbia University and co-founder of Arklex AI. …

3 weeks ago

Why Foundation Models Haven’t Replaced Classical Machine Learning

In this episode, Ben Lorica sits down with Doris Xin and Moustafa Abdelbaky, co-founders of Disarray, to discuss why classical machine learning model…

4 weeks ago

When "Garbage In, Garbage Out" Gets It Wrong

Ben Lorica speaks with Terrence Lee-St. John, founder of Enli and lead author of From Garbage to Gold: A Data Architectural Theory of Predictive Robu…

1 month ago

As Code Generation Speeds Up, Who Tests the Output?

In this episode, Ben Lorica talks with Evan Marshall, CTO of Ito AI, about why software testing and QA are becoming the critical bottleneck in the ag…

1 month, 1 week ago

The Gap Between AI Hype and Enterprise Reality

In this episode, Ben Lorica talks with Richard Garris and Barry Dauber from Databricks, about what enterprises are actually struggling with as they m…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Reading the Tea Leaves: What the World's Top AI Researchers Are Really Working On

Ben Lorica talks with Nick Vasiloglou, VP of Research at Relational AI, about Nick’s deep dive into NeurIPS 2025 and what people in industry should a…

1 month, 3 weeks ago