Chain of Thought | AI Agents, Infrastructure & Engineering

Est. audience

1,600

Apple rating

5 from 40

Cadence

Weekly

Latest

2026-11-01

By

Conor Bronsdon

Based on

12 recent episodes

• Covers: AI infrastructure, model inference, autonomous agent frameworks, enterprise evaluation, and developer tooling for engineering teams.
• For: Software engineers, CTOs, and founders building and deploying production AI systems.
• Best for: AI engineers and infrastructure leaders seeking practical architecture and deployment strategies.
• Skip if: Non-technical consumers looking for basic generative AI tutorials or general news.

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• How Cisco Secures Personal AI Assistants for 90,000 Employees | DJ Sampath: Explains how to securely deploy, sandbox, and scan enterprise AI assistants at scale.
• For AI Agent Fleets, the Model Is Rarely the Bottleneck | Theory Ventures' Andy Triedman: Discusses managing context and architectural bottlenecks when running fleets of AI agents.
• What Breaks When Agents Become the Customer | Svix CEO Tom Hacohen: Details how APIs, SDKs, and webhooks must adapt when autonomous agents become users.

Sponsors seen

• InngestSponsor

  Thanks to Inngest, presenting sponsor of season four of Chain of Thought.

  How Cisco Secures Personal AI Assistants for 90,000 Employees | DJ Sampath · 2026-10-29
• WalrusSponsor

  Thanks to Walrus, presenting sponsor of season four of Chain of Thought.

  How Cisco Secures Personal AI Assistants for 90,000 Employees | DJ Sampath · 2026-10-29
• WisdomAISponsor

  Thanks to WisdomAI for sponsoring this episode.

  How Cisco Secures Personal AI Assistants for 90,000 Employees | DJ Sampath · 2026-10-29
• SvixSponsor

  Thanks to Svix, presenting sponsor of season four of Chain of Thought.

  How Cisco Secures Personal AI Assistants for 90,000 Employees | DJ Sampath · 2026-10-29
• WalrusSponsor

  This episode is sponsored by Walrus.

  Switching Models Shouldn't Mean Starting Over | Walrus Protocol's Kimberly Logan · 2026-10-07
• WalrusSponsor

  Thanks to Walrus, presenting sponsor of season four of Chain of Thought. Walrus Memory gives AI agents portable, verifiable memory

  Agents Are Overtaking Humans in Search: Why Search Must Be Rebuilt · 2026-11-01
• CoralBricksSponsor

  Thanks to CoralBricks for sponsoring this episode. CoralBricks serves open models through one API, fast and at low cost

  Agents Are Overtaking Humans in Search: Why Search Must Be Rebuilt · 2026-11-01
• InngestSponsor

  Thanks to Inngest, presenting sponsor of season four of Chain of Thought. Agents in production run long: they call models

  Agents Are Overtaking Humans in Search: Why Search Must Be Rebuilt · 2026-11-01
• WisdomAISponsor

  Thanks to WisdomAI for sponsoring this episode. In WisdomAI's latest benchmark, Claude Code alone topped out at 73% accuracy

  Agents Are Overtaking Humans in Search: Why Search Must Be Rebuilt · 2026-11-01
• WisdomAISponsor

  Recorded at WisdomAI’s San Mateo office, this episode is sponsored by WisdomAI.

  Why Context Alone Isn't Enough for Enterprise AI Agents | WisdomAI CPO Kapil Chhabra · 2026-09-24
• SvixSponsor

  Thanks to Svix, presenting sponsor of season four of Chain of Thought. Svix delivers billions of reliable webhooks

  Tuning GPU Performance with AI Agents | AMD’s Anush Elangovan on ROCm 10 · 2026-09-09
• WalrusSponsor

  Thanks to Walrus, presenting sponsor of season four of Chain of Thought. Walrus Memory gives AI agents portable, verifiable memory

  Tuning GPU Performance with AI Agents | AMD’s Anush Elangovan on ROCm 10 · 2026-09-09
• SvixSponsor

  Thanks to Svix, presenting sponsor of season four of Chain of Thought. Svix delivers billions of reliable webhooks for startups and the Fortune 500.

  AI Codes: Product Engineers Decide What to Build | Laurie Voss, Arize · 2026-09-22
• WalrusSponsor

  Thanks to Walrus, presenting sponsor of season four of Chain of Thought. Walrus Memory gives AI agents portable, verifiable memory

  AI Codes: Product Engineers Decide What to Build | Laurie Voss, Arize · 2026-09-22
• G2iSponsor

  Thanks to G2i for sponsoring this episode - for over a decade, they vetted and placed engineers at other companies, from startups to FAANG.

  AI Codes: Product Engineers Decide What to Build | Laurie Voss, Arize · 2026-09-22
• InngestSponsor

  Thanks to Inngest, presenting sponsor of season four of Chain of Thought. Agents in production run long - they call models and wait on APIs and people.

  AI Codes: Product Engineers Decide What to Build | Laurie Voss, Arize · 2026-09-22
• SvixSponsor

  Thanks to Svix, presenting sponsor of season four of Chain of Thought. Svix delivers billions of reliable webhooks for startups and the Fortune 500.

  Your Best AI Engineer Might Have the Worst Metrics | Sonar CTO Andrea Malagodi · 2026-10-05
• WalrusSponsor

  Thanks to Walrus, presenting sponsor of season four of Chain of Thought. Walrus Memory gives AI agents portable, verifiable memory

  Your Best AI Engineer Might Have the Worst Metrics | Sonar CTO Andrea Malagodi · 2026-10-05
• InngestSponsor

  Thanks to Inngest, presenting sponsor of season four of Chain of Thought. Agents in production run long - they call models and wait on APIs and people.

  Your Best AI Engineer Might Have the Worst Metrics | Sonar CTO Andrea Malagodi · 2026-10-05
• G2iSponsor

  Thanks to G2i for sponsoring this episode - for over a decade, they vetted and placed engineers at other companies

  Your Best AI Engineer Might Have the Worst Metrics | Sonar CTO Andrea Malagodi · 2026-10-05
• SvixSponsor

  Thanks to Svix, presenting sponsor of season four of Chain of Thought. Svix delivers billions of reliable webhooks

  For AI Agent Fleets, the Model Is Rarely the Bottleneck | Theory Ventures' Andy Triedman · 2026-10-25
• WalrusSponsor

  Thanks to Walrus, presenting sponsor of season four of Chain of Thought. Walrus Memory gives AI agents portable, verifiable memory

  For AI Agent Fleets, the Model Is Rarely the Bottleneck | Theory Ventures' Andy Triedman · 2026-10-25
• InngestSponsor

  Thanks to Inngest, presenting sponsor of season four of Chain of Thought. Agents in production run long

  For AI Agent Fleets, the Model Is Rarely the Bottleneck | Theory Ventures' Andy Triedman · 2026-10-25
• G2iSponsor

  Thanks to G2i for sponsoring this episode - for over a decade, they vetted and placed engineers at other companies

  For AI Agent Fleets, the Model Is Rarely the Bottleneck | Theory Ventures' Andy Triedman · 2026-10-25
• SvixSponsor

  Thanks to Svix, presenting sponsor of season four of Chain of Thought. Svix delivers billions of reliable webhooks for startups and the Fortune 500.

  11 Cameras, Dozens of Mics: The AI That Reads the Room | Tormod Ree, Neat · 2026-08-27
• Walrus MemorySponsor

  Thanks to Walrus Memory, presenting sponsor of season four of Chain of Thought. Walrus Memory gives AI agents portable, verifiable memory that carries context across apps

  11 Cameras, Dozens of Mics: The AI That Reads the Room | Tormod Ree, Neat · 2026-08-27
• WalrusSponsor

  Thanks to Walrus, presenting sponsor of season four of Chain of Thought. Walrus Memory gives AI agents portable, verifiable memory

  Genspark's Bet: AI Agents Become the Users of Software | Wen Sang · 2026-09-17
• SvixSponsor

  Thanks to Svix, presenting sponsor of season four of Chain of Thought. Svix delivers billions of reliable webhooks for startups

  Genspark's Bet: AI Agents Become the Users of Software | Wen Sang · 2026-09-17
• InngestSponsor

  Thanks to Inngest, presenting sponsor of season four of Chain of Thought. Agents in production run long

  Genspark's Bet: AI Agents Become the Users of Software | Wen Sang · 2026-09-17
• G2iSponsor

  Thanks to G2i for sponsoring this episode - for over a decade, they vetted and placed engineers at other companies

  Genspark's Bet: AI Agents Become the Users of Software | Wen Sang · 2026-09-17
• SvixSponsor

  This episode is sponsored by Svix.

  What Breaks When Agents Become the Customer | Svix CEO Tom Hacohen · 2026-10-14
• Walrus MemorySponsor

  Thanks to Walrus Memory, presenting sponsor of season four of Chain of Thought.

  Slack Wants to Be the Context Harness for Code | CPO Jaime DeLanghe · 2026-09-02
• SvixSponsor

  Thanks to Svix, presenting sponsor of season four of Chain of Thought.

  Slack Wants to Be the Context Harness for Code | CPO Jaime DeLanghe · 2026-09-02

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