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How Replicate is Democratizing AI with Open-Source Resources

In this episode, we explore how Replicate is breaking down barriers in AI development through its open-source platform. CEO Ben Firshman shares how Replicate enables developers without machine learning expertise to run AI models in the cloud.

Raza Habib

Principles for Building Excellent AI Features

In this episode of High Agency, Raza speaks with Lorilyn McCue, the driving force behind Superhuman’s AI-powered features. Lorilyn lays out the principles that guide her team’s work, from continuous learning to prioritizing user feedback.

Raza Habib

The Problem with RAG Terminology

Jeff Huber covers the evolution of vector databases in AI engineering, challenges common assumptions about RAG and shares insights from Chroma's journey.

Raza Habib

How to Create AI Strategy in Enterprises

Peter Gostev shares his experiences implementing LLMs at NatWest and Moonpig. He discusses creating an AI strategy, talks about the challenges of deploying LLMs in large organizations, and shares thoughts on underappreciated AI developments.

Raza Habib

Building AI Employees with Coinbase's Ex-CPO

In this episode of High Agency, we're joined by Surojit Chatterjee, former CPO of Coinbase and now CEO of Ema. Surojit unveils his audacious plan to create universal AI employees and revolutionize Fortune 1000 workforce.

Raza Habib

Why Your AI Product Needs Evals with Hamel Husain

In this episode, Hamel Husain and Shawn Wang (aka Swyx) share insights on AI engineering, literate programming, and why your AI product desperately needs evals.

Raza Habib

How AI is Changing Product Development with Gong AI

Raz Nussbaum is a Senior Product Manager in AI at Gong — the leading AI platform for revenue teams. He is an absolute legend when it comes to building and scaling AI products that genuinely deliver value. In this episode, he opens up about what it takes to build successful AI products in an era where things change at lightning speed.

Raza Habib

From Fiction to Reality: AI-assisted Creative Writing

Sudowrite's founder James Yu discusses how AI is transforming creative writing, the challenges of building AI tools for fiction, and the future of human-AI collaboration in storytelling.

Raza Habib

Building the Nervous System for AI with Russ d'Sa from LiveKit

LiveKit CEO Russ d'Sa discusses the challenges and opportunities in building real-time communication infrastructure for AI applications, sharing insights from working with OpenAI

Raza Habib

From PyTorch to Fireworks AI: Building AI Infrastructure

Lin Qiao, former PyTorch lead at Meta and current CEO of Fireworks AI, details insights on the evolution of AI frameworks, the challenges of optimizing inference for generative AI, the future of AI hardware, and open-source models.

Raza Habib

How Paras Jain is building the future of AI video creation

In this episode, we are speaking to Paras Jain, who is building the future of AI video generation at Genmo. He details why he chose academia over an offer from Tesla, and the research-minded approach that has lead to Genmo's rapid success.

Raza Habib

Lessons from Gusto's $9.5 billion journey with Eddie Kim & Ali Rowghani

Eddie Kim details Gusto's GenAI integration in payroll/HR, exploring technical challenges, ethical considerations, and balancing automation with human oversight.

Raza Habib

Building the First LLM Search Engine

In this episode, we sit down with Michael Royzen, CEO and co-founder of Phind. Michael shares insights from his journey in building the first LLM-based search engine for developers, the challenges of creating reliable AI models, and his vision for how AI will transform the work of developers in the near future.

Raza Habib

The Contrarian's Guide to AI

Jason Liu is a true Renaissance man in the world of AI. In this episode, we cut through the AI hype explore effective strategies for building valuable AI products.

Raza Habib

What is beyond OpenAI?

Logan led developer relations at OpenAI before leading product on the Google AI Studio. He's been closer than anyone to developers building with LLMs and has seen behind the curtain at two frontier labs. In this week’s episode of the High Agency Podcast, Logan and I discuss the future trajectory of AI and share our insights on what AI builders can anticipate in the future.

Raza Habib

What is an AI Engineer?

In this week’s episode of the High Agency Podcast, I had the pleasure of interviewing Shawn Wang, better known as Swyx. As the author of the influential essay "Rise of the AI Engineer," Swyx is at the forefront of defining the evolving field of AI engineering. We discuss the emergence of the AI engineer, the skills required and the optimal make-up of an AI team.

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LLM Evals Done Right - Lessons from Bryan Bischof of Hex AI

I recently sat down with Bryan Bischof, Head of AI at Hex, to understand how Hex approaches evals and what lessons other teams can take from their experience.

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Building Reliable Agents with Ironclad

Over 50% of contracts at Ironclad are now negotiated by AI. I sat with Cai Gogwilt, Co-founder and Chief Architect to understand what lessons product leaders can take from their success of building AI Agents.

Raza Habib