High Agency The Podcast for AI Builders
High Agency is the podcast for AI builders. If you're trying to understand how to successfully build AI products with Large Language Models and Generative AI then this podcast is made for you.
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—whether or not they have machine learning expertise—to integrate and deploy AI models seamlessly.
Show highlights and transcript
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.
Show highlights and transcript
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.
Show highlights and transcript
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.
Show highlights and transcript
Building AI Employees with Coinbase's Ex-CPO
In this episode of High Agency, Surojit Chatterjee, former CPO of Coinbase unveils his audacious plan to create universal AI employees and revolutionize Fortune 1000 workforce.
Show highlights and transcript
Why Your AI Product Needs Evals
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.
Show highlights and transcript
How AI is Changing Product Development at 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.
Show highlights and transcript
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.
Show highlights and transcript
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.
Show highlights and transcript
From PyTorch to Fireworks AI: Building AI Infrastructure with Lin Qiao
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.
Show highlights and transcript
How Paras Jain is building the future of AI video creation
Paras Jain details why he chose academia over an offer from Tesla, and the research-minded approach that has led to Genmo's rapid success in AI video generation.
Show highlights and transcript
AI at Scale: 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.
Show highlights and transcript
Building the first LLM-based search engine for developers with Michael Royzen
Michael shares insights from his journey in building the first LLM-based search engine for developers.
Show highlights and transcript
Contrarian Guide to AI: Jason Liu on Betting Against Agents while Doubling Down on RAG & Fine-Tuning
Jason Liu shares his journey from traditional ML to LLMs and strategies for building valuable AI products.
Show highlights and transcript
What comes after Open AI? Logan Kilpatrick on how you should prepare for the future of LLMs
Raza asks Logan what it was like joining OpenAI right as ChatGPT hit 1M users, plus what's new with Google Gemini.
Show highlights and transcript
AI's Memory Upgrade: Max Rumpf on how to build advanced RAG systems
RAG has become core to building AI applications. An episode is full of technical detail and practical insights.
Building AI Products at Scale: Lessons from Zapier's CEO
In this episode, Wade Foster shares Zapier's AI journey, insights from a hackathon, and the future of AI in work.
Inventing the AI Engineer
It's been a year since Sean Wang penned the viral essay 'Rise of the AI Engineer' and we discuss how this new role has evolved.
Show highlights and transcript
Building an AI coding assistant with Beyang Liu CTO of Sourcegraph
How to work around limited context windows in LLMs, and why embedding models aren’t always the answer.
Evaluating LLMs the Right Way: Lessons from Hex's Journey
Bryan Bischof of Hex shares insights on deploying reliable AI assistants, evaluating LLMs, and Hex's unique framework for success.
Show highlights and transcript
Building reliable AI agents with Cai GoGwilt CTO of Ironclad
Ironclad uses generative AI to negotiate 50% of contracts. CTO Cai GoGwilt explains how they achieved this.