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Chain of Thought | AI Agents, Infrastructure & Engineering

AI is reshaping infrastructure, strategy, and entire industries. Chain of Thought is the podcast where builders reason through what's changing. Host Conor Bronsdon sits down with the engineers and founders shipping AI in production to get past the hype into what's working and what isn't. Episodes cover model infrastructure, inference, agent frameworks, evaluation, and developer tools. Guests have come from NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, AMD, Databricks, Vercel, and more. Every episode carries a full transcript and show notes at chainofthought.show. New episodes weekly. Conor Bronsdon is an independent consultant and angel investor in AI infrastructure and developer tools. He led technical ecosystem at Modular, acquired by Qualcomm in 2026; led developer awareness at Galileo, acquired by Cisco; and ran developer marketing at LinearB, where he was GM of the Dev Interrupted podcast and community. Views expressed by the host and guests are their own.

Episodes

Switching Models Shouldn't Mean Starting Over | Walrus's Kimberly Logan

07 Oct 2026

37m

Your Best AI Engineer Might Have the Worst Metrics | Sonar CTO Andrea Malagodi

05 Oct 2026

56m

Why Context Alone Isn't Enough for Enterprise AI Agents | WisdomAI CPO Kapil Chhabra

24 Sep 2026

1h 23m

AI Codes: Product Engineers Decide What to Build

22 Sep 2026

56m

Genspark's Bet: AI Agents Become the Users of Software | Wen Sang

17 Sep 2026

1h 1m

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AI agents are evolving from stateless tools into persistent, human-centric collaborators that leverage memory and physical-world context to automate complex knowledge work. By implementing a "mixture of agents" architecture, platforms can orchestrate specialized models for reasoning, coding, and data analysis, effectiv...

Transforming meeting rooms into proactive participants requires a sophisticated integration of edge-based AI and hardware sensors. Tormod Ree, Chief Product and Engineering Officer at Neat, explains that by deploying multiple cameras and microphones, systems can read physical spaces to understand participant interactio...

Thomson 1: The New $40M Legal AI Model | Thomson Reuters Joel Hron

24 Aug 2026

53m

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Thomson Reuters is transforming into an AI-first technology company with the launch of "Thomson," a specialized model designed for legal, tax, and compliance professionals. By building upon an open-source foundation and augmenting it with proprietary data and expert human feedback, the company achieves high-performance...

Time to Exploit is Negative: AI Broke the Patch Cycle | Dan Lorenc

19 Aug 2026

47m

AI Agents Need Parenting, Not Static Rules | Cisco's Jeetu Patel

12 Aug 2026

46m

Data Federation, Not Centralization, Is What Enterprise AI Needs

16 Jul 2026

52m

You Can't Secure an AI Agent with Software

01 Jul 2026

52m

Stop Token Maxxing: Find Where AI Actually Pays Off | Jiaona Zhang

25 Jun 2026

57m

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Organizations struggle to quantify AI ROI because they lack visibility into token spend versus actual business outcomes. Rather than simply mandating AI usage, leaders must prioritize efficient workflows that reclaim human time from repetitive drudgery. Jay-Z, CPO at Laurel and former product leader at Airbnb and Dropb...