{"podcast":{"title":"Chain of Thought | AI Agents, Infrastructure & Engineering","slug":"chain-of-thought-ai-agents","podcast_index_feed_id":7074333,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/chain-of-thought","website_url":"https://www.chainofthought.show/","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/L9UtZvVIeHCUeyWb9gm7IMgzws11SpR5smiF7YG89n4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85ZWU3/Mjk4NDcwNGRiOGI4/NWUwMTQ0ZjA1NjM3/ZWU0Ny5qcGc.jpg","author":"Conor Bronsdon","episode_count":73,"summary":"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.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-10T00:20:07.137048+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/chain-of-thought-ai-agents"},"episode":{"title":"Debunking AI's Environmental Panic | Andy Masley","slug":"debunking-ai-s-environmental-panic-andy-masley","published_at":"2025-11-26T10:32:57+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/chain-of-thought-ai-agents/debunking-ai-s-environmental-panic-andy-masley","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/chain-of-thought-ai-agents","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/ceb63059","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/ceb63059/d03ba8db.mp3","summary":"AI is destroying the planet—or so we've been told. This week on Chain of Thought, we tackle one of the most persistent and misleading narratives in the AI conversation.Andy Masley, Director of Effective Altruism DC, joins host Conor Bronsdon to fact-check the absurd AI environmental claims you've heard at parties, in articles, and even in bestselling books. Andy recently went viral for discovering what he calls \"the single most egregious math mistake\" he's ever seen in a book—a data center water usage calculation in Karen Hao's NYT Bestseller, Empire of AI, that was off by a factor of 4,500.In this conversation, Andy and Conor break down the myths around AI’s water and energy usage and explore:The viral Empire of AI error and what it reveals about the broader debateWhy most AI water usage statistics are misleading or flat-out wrongHow one ChatGPT prompt represents just 1/150,000th of your daily emissionsTrade-offs around data center cooling + decision makingWhy \"tribal thinking\" about AI is distorting environmental activismWhere AI might actually help the climate through deep learning optimizationIf you've ever felt guilty about using AI tools, been cornered at a party about AI's environmental impact, or simply want to understand what the data actually says, this episode, and Andy’s deep dive articles, arm you with the facts.Chapters:00:00 – Introduction: The Party Guilt Problem01:54 – Andy's Background and What Sparked This Work03:50 – The 4,500x Error in Empire of AI06:39 – Breaking Down the Math: Liters vs. Cubic Meters10:39 – The Unintended Consequence: Air Cooling vs. Water Cooling12:51 – Karen Hao's Response and What's Still Missing19:08 – Why Environmentalists Should Focus Elsewhere21:41 – The Danger of Tribal Thinking About AI25:49 – What Is Effective Altruism…","meta_description":"AI is destroying the planet—or so we've been told. This week on Chain of Thought, we tackle one of the most persistent and misleading narratives in the AI…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3543,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/chain-of-thought-ai-agents/episodes/debunking-ai-s-environmental-panic-andy-masley/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/chain-of-thought-ai-agents/debunking-ai-s-environmental-panic-andy-masley.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}