'Around the Prompt' goes deep, peeling back the layers of AI innovation to reveal the hidden gems, the untapped potential, based on conversations with leading experts. Whether you're a seasoned AI enthusiast or just dipping your toes into the world of artificial intelligence, we will be your compass for navigating the ever-changing landscape. Discover how AI is transforming industries, enhancing our daily lives, and shaping the world of tomorrow. Our conversations transcend mere trends and b ...
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An unfiltered conversation with Matan Grinberg, CEO of Factory AI
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Join Nolan Fortman and Logan Kilpatrick for a conversation with Matan Grinberg, CEO of Factory AI, about the future of software development, the launch of Factory, the challenges of scaling up autonomous coding agents, and the pivot that led to Factory building Droids. Check out Factory AI and Droids: https://www.factory.ai/…
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An unfiltered conversation with Brett Adcock, CEO of Figure AI
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Join Nolan Fortman and Logan Kilpatrick for a conversation with Brett Adcock, CEO of Figure AI, a general purpose robotics company. We talk about how robotics are the ultimate deployment vector of AGI, the challenges of robotics, and the timeline until home robots hit mainstream.
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An unfiltered conversation with Sahil Lavingia, CEO of Gumroad
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Join Nolan Fortman and Logan Kilpatrick for a conversation about AI, the future of work, autonomous coding agents, and more with Sahil Lavingia, the CEO and founder of Gumroad & Antiwork. Sahil has been a builder for over 10 years, initially raising a small VC round then series A for Gumroad and is now building as an AI first product company. It wa…
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An unfiltered conversation with Anjney Midha, General Partner at A16Z
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Join Nolan Fortman and Logan Kilpatrick as they sit down with legendary investor and builder Anjney Midha to chat all things AI. From foundation model progress, to evals, to how to find the next generation of AI enabled products, Anjney shares his deep insights around AI as one of the critical figures in the ecosystem.…
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An unfiltered conversation with Eric Simons, CEO of Bolt.new
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Join Nolan Fortman and Logan Kilpatrick for a deep dive into the story of Bolt.new (Stackblitz) with founder and CEO Eric Simons. We talk about Bolt.new as the overnight success 7 years in the making, why vibe coding is here to stay, scaling from $0 to $20M to now $40M ARR, the the future of software creation. Get started vibe coding: https://bolt.…
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An unfiltered conversation with Mehul Nariyawala, cofounder of Matic robots
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Join Nolan Fortman and Logan Kilpatrick for a conversation about the future of home robotics with Matic CEO Mehul Nariyawala. We dive deep into the challenges of on-device AI, scaling robot production in America, where humanoids are going, and more!
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An unfiltered conversation with Dwarkesh Patel
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Join Nolan Fortman and Logan Kilpatrick for a deep conversation with Dwarkesh Patel, host of the Dwarkesh podcast, and one of the 2024 TIME most influential people in AI. We chat about how the world is going to change with AI in the next 2 years, infinite AI dimensionality, creating content for the AI world, human authenticity in the age of AI, and…
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An unfiltered conversation with Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub
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Join Nolan Fortman and Logan Kilpatrick for a deep dive on the world of coding with GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke. We chat about: - Personal software creation using AI - Open source in the age of AI - AI enabling coding changing how developers work and much more! Thomas is leading the charge for one of the world's most important developer companies. I h…
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An unfiltered conversation with Alex Atallah, CEO of OpenRouter
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Listen to a conversation with Alex Atallah, the CEO of OpenRouter, along with Nolan Fortman and Logan Kilpatrick. The conversation covers: The start of OpenRouter Open vs Closed models Why AI usage is the ultimate metric for us How to compare different models in production How to rank models And much more!…
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An unfiltered conversation with Chamath Palihapitiya
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Join Nolan Fortman and Logan Kilpatrick as they dive into an unfiltered conversation with Chamath Palihapitiya, covering: open source AI, the massive compute buildout, where the AI value creation is, how to build for the age of AI, Deepseek, and much more!
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Simon Willison: The Future of Open Source and AI
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In this conversation, Simon Willison discusses the intersection of AI, Open Source, and journalism, emphasizing the importance of tools like Dataset in enhancing data journalism. He reflects on his journey from developing Django to his current work with AI, highlighting the role of open source in software development. Willison shares insights on ho…
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Shreya Rajpal: Guardrails AI, AI Production Challenges, & AI Reliability
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Join Logan Kilpatrick and Nolan Fortman for a discussion with Shreya Rajpal that covers the inception and evolution of Guardrails, a tool designed to enhance reliability in AI applications. She emphasizes the importance of AI validation, the challenges of moving from proof of concept to production, and the organizational buy-in required for impleme…
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Quinn Slack: Sourcegraph, AI Coding, and Cody
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Join Logan and Nolan in a deep dive into the world of AI coding with Quinn Slack, the CEO of Sourcegraph. Sourcegraph was founded in 2013 with the goal of solving the problem of code search. The founders, who had experience working with massive code bases, wanted to create a code search tool similar to Google for code. They started by building code…
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Andrew Mayne: Prompt Engineering, Joining OpenAI, & Shark AI
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Andrew Mayne shares his non-traditional journey into AI, from being a magician and illusionist to becoming a science communicator at OpenAI. He discusses his early experiences with AI as a child, his interest in robotics and AI, and his fascination with chatbots. Andrew also talks about his experience using AI to deceive great white sharks and how …
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Marily Nika: AI Product Management, Building AI Products, & MetaAI
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In this episode, Logan and Nolan dive deep into building AI product's with Marily Nika, a lead product manager at Google. We explore how AI on its own is not a product. AI product managers act as a bridge between AI and user needs. The role of AI product managers is to solve the right problems for users by leveraging AI capabilities. The demand for…
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Ben Tossell: AI Automation, Ben's Bites, Makerpad, & Low / No code AI
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In this conversation, Ben discusses the intersection of low/no code tools and AI. He shares his experience in the low/no code space and how it relates to the current trends in large language models (LLMs) and AI. Ben highlights the democratization of software development and the ability for non-technical founders to build functional products using …
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Conor Grennan: AI Mindset, NYU GenAI, & Practical AI
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Join Logan Kilpatrick and Nolan Fortman as we dive deep into how having an AI-first mindset is one of the key enablers for the broad adoption of AI. Conor has trained hundreds of thousands of people to use AI and currently serves as the head of generative AI at NYU Stern. Takeaways - Stay out of the AI bubble and understand how people outside of th…
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Jerry Li: AI Community Superintelligence, Gradual & AI Communities
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Jerry is the CEO of Gradual, a community platform, and is seeing the front line of how AI is effecting both online and in-person communities. We are in uncharted waters and in this conversation, we explore how AI might impact these communities, why AI could lead to more sustainable online spaces of gathering, and much more. Summary Gradual was born…
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Yohei Nakajima: BabyAGI, AI Agents, & AI Investing
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Join Logan Kilpatrick and Nolan Fortman as we dive deep into the future of AI Agents, how they will affect businesses, developers, and the world. Yohei is one of the deepest thinkers in the world of AI agents, as the creator of Baby AGI and the backer of many companies in the agent space. I hope you all enjoy this conversation as much as Nolan and …
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Jeremy Howard: AnswerAI, FastAI, Fine-tuning & AI recruiting | Around the Prompt #1
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Join Logan Kilpatrick and Nolan Fortman as we dive into a conversation with Jeremy Howard on: - Why Jeremy created a new startup AswerAI - Why fine-tuning is still underrated - How attracting the world's best AI talent requires global and remote hiring - What the future for FastAI will look like - Building AI community And so much more. This was an…
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