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How Humans Will Earn in the AI Economy with Jordan Gray from Public AI
Will AI steal your job or create new opportunities? Discover how humans will thrive in the evolving AI economy.
Introducing: The Mishal Husain Show
Go beyond the headlines with Mishal Husain as she uncovers the ideas shaping our world, featuring exclusive interviews with global power players.
A Tiny Plot to Call Home
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How to measure AI developer productivity in 2025 | Nicole Forsgren
Are your developer productivity metrics outdated? Learn how to accurately measure and boost your team's performance in the AI era.
Version History: Sony Watchman
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Why AI Will Create Abundance and Transform Customer Experience: Cresta CEO Ping Wu
Duration: 00:47:19
October 14, 2025
- AI agents can create a continuous customer journey by enabling a personalized and ongoing conversation throughout all phases of interaction.
- The future of customer experience with LLMs will shift from a scarcity mindset, focused on job displacement, to an abundance mindset, enabling new and improved interactions.
- Value in AI will accrue to the application layer, focusing on practical uses like contact center solutions that integrate human agents with autonomous digital agents.
Block CTO Dhanji Prasanna: Building the AI-First Enterprise with Goose, their Open Source Agent
Duration: 00:59:43
September 30, 2025
- Block CTO Danji Prasana discusses the company's approach to AI, emphasizing its potential for both good and bad depending on who controls it and their intended purpose.
- Block is leveraging "Goose," an open-source AI agent using the Model Context Protocol (MCP), to orchestrate workflows across various systems and increase company-wide productivity, with a current target of saving 25% of manual hours.
- Prasana envisions a future where "swarm intelligence," utilizing numerous smaller, open-source AI agents working collaboratively, could unlock new levels of coding capability and application development.
Why Businesses Are Rejecting the AI Theyโve Asked For: Agency CEO Elias Torres
Duration: 00:44:49
September 23, 2025
- Alias believes AI is currently misunderstood, with users expecting flawless accuracy despite its broad functionality.
- His company, Agency, aims to revolutionize customer experience by using AI to scale it beyond human limitations, focusing on AI-led solutions.
- Alias is optimistic about the future of AI, envisioning it empowering individuals to focus on high-level decision-making and purpose.
Building the "App Store" for Robots: Hugging Face's Thomas Wolf on Physical AI
Duration: 00:43:08
September 9, 2025
- Hugging Face is aiming to replicate the success of its Transformers library in robotics by creating a central library for the field, combining policy models, datasets, and hardware.
- The biggest hurdle in robotics currently is the lack of diverse data, but Hugging Face hopes to address this by incentivizing community members to record and share datasets.
- Looking ahead, Hugging Face envisions a future where AI is democratized, with a software-developer-like community actively building and creating with AI tools, rather than just passively consuming AI content.
How Crosby is Building an AI Law Firm on Deal Velocity not Billable Hours
Duration: 00:49:59
September 2, 2025
- Crosby is structured as an AI-first law firm, rather than legal software, to allow for unique telemetry and feedback loops by having domain experts working alongside engineers.
- Crosby is innovating on pricing by moving away from the billable hour and instead billing by the document, incentivizing efficiency and predictability in legal work costs.
- The company aims to build a better legal infrastructure by generalizing benchmarks in contracts and automating parts of the legal process, ultimately providing more people with access to legal services.
n8n CEO Jan Oberhauser on Building the Universal AI Automation Layer
Duration: 00:35:44
August 26, 2025
- NADN is focused on enabling users to build AI-powered applications, rather than simply adding AI features to an existing automation tool.
- A key turning point for NADN's growth was shifting the marketing strategy to prioritize community adoption over lead generation, leading to exponential growth as the community realized NADN had become an AI-focused tool.
- NADN maintains an open-source ethos by allowing free use of its source code, but prohibits commercialization to ensure the sustainability of the company, prioritizing data privacy and security over cost savings through open source.
Scaling the โCursor for Slidesโ to $50M ARR: Gamma founder Jon Noronha
Duration: 00:30:05
August 19, 2025
- Gamma's initial vision was to reinvent presentations, moving beyond being a mere PowerPoint clone to creating a new format for visual communication.
- Facing middling traction pre-AI, Gamma found a solution to the "blank page" problem by leveraging AI to generate rough drafts, shifting user effort from creation to editing.
- Gamma emphasizes a "lean paranoid mindset" and experimentation, prioritizing cost efficiency and AB testing across multiple models, like Claude, Gemini, and GPT, to optimize prompt engineering.
Delphiโs Dara Ladjevardian: How AI Digital Minds Can Scale Human Connection
Duration: 00:39:05
August 12, 2025
- Deli is creating "digital minds," AI representations of individuals, that go beyond mimicking speech to capture thinking and reasoning processes.
- The company's origin stems from the founder's personal need to connect with a digital version of his late grandfather, highlighting the potential for AI to facilitate human connection and mentorship.
- Deli envisions a future where AI-powered digital minds become commonplace, shifting online interactions from information feeds to personalized conversational experiences.
Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch: Building the Generative Web with AI
Duration: 01:00:59
August 5, 2025
- Vercel's Vzero is democratizing software creation by attracting non-developers like designers and marketers, who can now generate functional front-end apps from text prompts.
- AI is transforming software development metrics, providing immediate feedback loops based on code functionality and user engagement, which is a significant improvement over traditional developer experience measurement.
- The future web will be generative, with applications created on-demand for individual users, potentially rendering traditional, downloadable software obsolete.
OpenAIโs IMO Team on Why Models Are Finally Solving Elite-Level Math
Duration: 00:30:10
July 30, 2025
- OpenAI's model achieved a gold medal performance at the International Math Olympiad (IMO), marking a significant milestone in AI development.
- The team emphasized the use of general-purpose techniques for scaling compute and handling hard-to-verify tasks, rather than bespoke solutions tailored only to math competitions.
- While the model excels at competition math, the next frontier involves tackling problems requiring significantly longer reasoning times, with the ultimate goal of facilitating novel research breakthroughs.