Podcast Episodes

Episode 49: Why Data and AI Still Break at Scale (and What to Do About It)

Season 1

If we want AI systems that actually work in production, we need better infrastructure—not just better models.

In this episode, Hugo talks with Akshay Agrawal (Marimo, ex-Google Brain, Netflix, Stanfo…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Episode 48: HOW TO BENCHMARK AGI WITH GREG KAMRADT

Season 1

If we want to make progress toward AGI, we need a clear definition of intelligence—and a way to measure it.

In this episode, Hugo talks with Greg Kamradt, President of the ARC Prize Foundation, about…

Published on 4 months ago

Episode 47: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch of Code Slop with Joe Reis

Season 1

What if the cost of writing code dropped to zero — but the cost of understanding it skyrocketed?

In this episode, Hugo sits down with Joe Reis to unpack how AI tooling is reshaping the software devel…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Episode 46: Software Composition Is the New Vibe Coding

Season 1

What if building software felt more like composing than coding?

In this episode, Hugo and Greg explore how LLMs are reshaping the way we think about software development—from deterministic programmin…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Episode 45: Your AI application is broken. Here’s what to do about it.

Season 1

Too many teams are building AI applications without truly understanding why their models fail. Instead of jumping straight to LLM evaluations, dashboards, or vibe checks, how do you actually fix a br…

Published on 7 months ago

Episode 44: The Future of AI Coding Assistants: Who’s Really in Control?

Season 1

AI coding assistants are reshaping how developers write, debug, and maintain code—but who’s really in control? In this episode, Hugo speaks with Tyler Dunn, CEO and co-founder of Continue, an open-so…

Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago

Episode 43: Tales from 400+ LLM Deployments: Building Reliable AI Agents in Production

Season 1

Hugo speaks with Alex Strick van Linschoten, Machine Learning Engineer at ZenML and creator of a comprehensive LLMOps database documenting over 400 deployments. Alex's extensive research into real-wo…

Published on 8 months, 1 week ago

Episode 42: Learning, Teaching, and Building in the Age of AI

Season 1

In this episode of Vanishing Gradients, the tables turn as Hugo sits down with Alex Andorra, host of Learning Bayesian Statistics. Hugo shares his journey from mathematics to AI, reflecting on how Ba…

Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago

Episode 41: Beyond Prompt Engineering: Can AI Learn to Set Its Own Goals?

Season 1

Hugo Bowne-Anderson hosts a panel discussion from the MLOps World and Generative AI Summit in Austin, exploring the long-term growth of AI by distinguishing real problem-solving from trend-based solu…

Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Episode 40: What Every LLM Developer Needs to Know About GPUs

Season 1

Hugo speaks with Charles Frye, Developer Advocate at Modal and someone who really knows GPUs inside and out. If you’re a data scientist, machine learning engineer, AI researcher, or just someone tryi…

Published on 9 months ago