Developer tooling shapes how software gets written day to day, but the best tools often disappear into the background once they succeed. Formatting, linting, and build systems can either create friction and endless debate, or quietly remove entire classes of problems from a team’s workflow. Over the past decade, the JavaScript ecosystem has wrestled with
Mar 12
DeepMind’s RAG System with Animesh Chatterji and Ivan Solovyev
Retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, has become a foundational approach to building production AI systems. However, deploying RAG in practice can be complex and costly. Developers typically have to manage vector databases, chunking strategies, embedding models, and indexing in ... Show More
37m 57s
Mar 10
Reinventing the Python Notebook with Akshay Agrawal
Interactive notebooks were popularized by the Jupyter project and have since become a core tool for data science, research, and data exploration. However, traditional, imperative notebooks often break down as projects grow more complex. Hidden state, non-reproducible execution, p ... Show More
46m 4s
Jun 2025
Building the Internet of Agents with Vijoy Pandey - #737
Today, we're joined by Vijoy Pandey, SVP and general manager at Outshift by Cisco to discuss a foundational challenge for the enterprise: how do we make specialized agents from different vendors collaborate effectively? As companies like Salesforce, Workday, and Microsoft all dev ... Show More
56m 13s
Aug 2025
AlgoSec on AI, Automation, and the Next Era of Network Management
<p>The enterprise network is under pressure like never before. Hybrid environments, cloud migrations, edge deployments, and the sudden surge in AI workloads have made it increasingly difficult to keep application connectivity secure and reliable. The old model of device-by-device ... Show More
22m 30s
Aug 2024
The Building Blocks of Agentic Systems with Harrison Chase - #698
Today, we're joined by Harrison Chase, co-founder and CEO of LangChain to discuss LLM frameworks, agentic systems, RAG, evaluation, and more. We dig into the elements of a modern LLM framework, including the most productive developer experiences and appropriate levels of abstract ... Show More
59m 17s
Dec 2024
Watching the watchers. IoT vulnerabilities exposed by AI. [Research Saturday]
This week, we are joined by Andrew Morris, Founder and CTO of GreyNoise, to discuss their work on "GreyNoise Intelligence Discovers Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in Live Streaming Cameras with the Help of AI." GreyNoise discovered two critical zero-day vulnerabilities in IoT-connected ... Show More
18m 15s
Jan 2025
MBZ-SAT’s First Signal and UAE’s Tech Boom in 2025
The UAE satellite MBZ-SAT beams its first signal back to Earth, showcasing Emirati innovation. Meanwhile, the UAE’s tech industry is on track for record-breaking growth in 2025. Plus, as U.S. TikTok users prepare for a potential ban, many are flocking to the Chinese social media ... Show More
15m 15s
Oct 2025
Google’s engineering culture
Brought to You By:• Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. Something interesting is happening with the latest generation of tech giants. Rather than building advanced experimentation tools themselves, companies like Anthropic, Figma, Noti ... Show More
2h 46m
Oct 2025
How startups could be affected by a prolonged government shutdown, plus Oneleet raises $33M to shake up the world of security compliance
The U.S. government shutdown could stifle deal flow, freeze visa processing for workers, and cause other problems for startups and the broader tech sector, especially if it lasts longer than a week, according to experts who spoke to TechCrunch. Also, Bryan Onel’s father was a loc ... Show More
10m 54s