AI Engineering Podcast

Summary  In this episode Joe Devon, co-founder of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), talks about how generative AI can both help and harm digital accessibility — and what it will take to tilt the balance toward inclusion. Joe shares his personal motivation for the work, real-world stakes for disabled users across web, mobile, and developer…

Summary  In this episode product and engineering leader Preeti Shukla explores how and when to add agentic capabilities to SaaS platforms. She digs into the operational realities that AI agents must meet inside multi-tenant software: latency, cost control, data privacy, tenant isolation, RBAC, and auditability. Preeti outlines practical frameworks…

Summary  In this episode Craig McLuckie, co-creator of Kubernetes and founder/CEO of Stacklok, talks about how to improve security and reliability for AI agents using curated, optimized deployments of the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Craig explains why MCP is emerging as the API layer for AI‑native applications, how to balance short‑term…

Summary  In this episode Max Beauchemin explores how multiplayer, multi‑agent engineering is reshaping individual and team velocity for building data and AI systems. Max shares his journey from Airflow and Superset to going all‑in on AI coding agents, describing a pragmatic “AI‑first reflex” for nearly every task and the emerging role of humans as…

Summary  In this episode of the AI Engineering Podcast Vinay Kumar, founder and CEO of Arya.ai and head of Lexsi Labs, talks about practical strategies for understanding and steering AI systems. He discusses the differences between interpretability and explainability, and why post-hoc methods can be misleading. Vinay shares his approach to tracing…

Summary In this episode Guillaume de Saint Marc, VP of Engineering at Cisco Outshift, talks about the complexities and opportunities of scaling multi‑agent systems. Guillaume explains why specialized agents collaborating as a team inspire trust in enterprise settings, and contrasts rigid, “lift-and-shift” agentic workflows with fully self-forming…

Summary In this episode of the AI Engineering Podcast Will Vincent, Python developer advocate at JetBrains (PyCharm), talks about how AI utilities are revolutionizing software engineering beyond basic code completion. He discusses the shift from "vibe coding" to "vibe engineering," where engineers collaborate with AI agents through clear…

Summary In this episode of the AI Engineering Podcast Daniel Sodickson, Chief of Innovation in Radiology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, talks about harnessing AI systems to truly understand images and revolutionize science and healthcare. Dan shares his journey from linear reconstruction to early deep learning for accelerated MRI, highlighting…

Summary In this episode Andrew Filev, CEO and founder of ZenCoder, takes a deep dive into the system design, workflows, and organizational changes behind building agentic coding systems. He traces the evolution from autocomplete to truly agentic models, discusses why context engineering and verification are the real unlocks for reliability, and…

Summary In this episode of the AI Engineering Podcast Lucas Thelosen and Drew Gillson talk about Orion, their agentic analytics platform that delivers proactive, push-based insights to business users through asynchronous thinking with rich organizational context. Lucas and Drew share their approach to building trustworthy analysis by grounding in…