{"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":"The Accidental Algorithm | Humans of AI Crossover with Writer's Melisa Russak","slug":"the-accidental-algorithm-humans-of-ai-crossover-with-writer-s-melisa-russak","published_at":"2025-10-01T14:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/chain-of-thought-ai-agents/the-accidental-algorithm-humans-of-ai-crossover-with-writer-s-melisa-russak","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/chain-of-thought-ai-agents","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/cddc3015","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/cddc3015/e39d5e53.mp3","summary":"This week, we're doing something special and sharing an episode from another podcast we love: The Humans of AI by our friends at Writer. We're huge fans of their work, and you might remember Writer's CEO, May Habib, from the inaugural episode of our own show.From The Humans of AI:Learn how Melisa Russak, lead research scientist at WRITER, stumbled upon fundamental machine learning algorithms, completely unaware of existing research — twice. Her story reveals the power of approaching problems with fresh eyes and the innovative breakthroughs that can occur when constraints become catalysts for creativity.Melisa explores the intersection of curiosity-driven research, accidental discovery, and systematic innovation, offering valuable insights into how WRITER is pushing the boundaries of enterprise AI. Tune in to learn how her journey from a math teacher in China to a pioneer in AI research illuminates the future of technological advancement.Follow the hostsFollow⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Atin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Conor⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Vikram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Yash⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow Today's Guest(s)Check out Writer’s YouTube channel to watch the full interviews. Learn more about WRITER at writer.com. Follow Melisa on LinkedInFollow May on LinkedInCheck out Galileo⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Try Galileo⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Agent Leaderboard","meta_description":"This week, we're doing something special and sharing an episode from another podcast we love: The Humans of AI by our friends at Writer. We're huge fans o…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1270,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/chain-of-thought-ai-agents/episodes/the-accidental-algorithm-humans-of-ai-crossover-with-writer-s-melisa-russak/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/the-accidental-algorithm-humans-of-ai-crossover-with-writer-s-melisa-russak.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}