{"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 Critical Infrastructure Behind the AI Boom | Cisco CPO Jeetu Patel","slug":"the-critical-infrastructure-behind-the-ai-boom-cisco-cpo-jeetu-patel","published_at":"2025-11-19T14:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/chain-of-thought-ai-agents/the-critical-infrastructure-behind-the-ai-boom-cisco-cpo-jeetu-patel","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/chain-of-thought-ai-agents","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/43ad9185","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/43ad9185/2716a8cf.mp3","summary":"AI is accelerating at a breakneck pace, but model quality isn’t the only constraint we face.. There are major infrastructure requirements, energy needs, security, and data pipelines to run AI at scale. This week on Chain of Thought, Cisco’s President and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel joins host Conor Bronsdon to reveal what it actually takes to build the critical foundation for the AI era.Jeetu breaks down the three bottlenecks he sees holding AI back today: • Infrastructure limits: not enough power, compute, or data center capacity • A trust deficit: non-deterministic models powering systems that must be predictable • A widening data gap: human-generated data plateauing while machine data explodesJeetu then shares how Cisco is tackling these challenges through secure AI factories, edge inference, open multi-model architectures, and global partnerships with Nvidia, G42, and sovereign cloud providers. Jeetu also explains why he thinks enterprises will soon rely on thousands of specialized models — not just one — and how routing, latency, cost, and security shape this new landscape.Conor and Jeetu also explore high-performance leadership and team culture, discussing building high-trust teams, embracing constructive tension, staying vigilant in moments of success, and the personal experiences that shaped Jeetu’s approach to innovation and resilience.If you want a clearer picture of the global AI infrastructure race, how high-level leaders are thinking about the future, and what it all means for enterprises, developers, and the future of work, this conversation is essential.Chapters:00:00 – Welcome to Chain of Thought0:48 - AI and Jobs: Beyond the Hype6:15 - The Real AI Opportunity: Original Insights10:00 - Three Critical AI Constraints: Infrastructure, Trust, and Data…","meta_description":"AI is accelerating at a breakneck pace, but model quality isn’t the only constraint we face.. There are major infrastructure requirements, energy needs, s…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4691,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/chain-of-thought-ai-agents/episodes/the-critical-infrastructure-behind-the-ai-boom-cisco-cpo-jeetu-patel/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-critical-infrastructure-behind-the-ai-boom-cisco-cpo-jeetu-patel.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}