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Technically Speaking, hosted by Megan Reynolds, presented by Railway

Thanks to AI, everything we knew about software is stale.

On Technically Speaking, host Megan Reynolds, founder of infra.nyc, asks high-profile technical leaders to explain how it works and where it's headed. (Honestly, they're figuring it out too.)

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Original music by The Jazz Boys.

Episode 3 · Thursday, November 5

What DeepSeek figured out, and why you shouldn't copy it

If a pre-trained AI model is a block of marble, reinforcement learning carves it into a statue.
Julien LaunayCofounder at Adaptive ML at Adaptive MLSesh NallaVP of Engineering at DatadogMegan ReynoldsHostFounder at infra.nyc

Earlier episodes

  • Episode 2 · Thu, Oct 29

    What actually is AI research?

    Jonathan FrankleChief AI Scientist at Databricks
  • Episode 1 · Thu, Oct 22

    We can do better than --dangerously-skip-permissions

    Michael GrinichFounder & CEO at WorkOS

Coming soon

  • Episode 4 · Out Thu, Nov 12

    The cloud is a building, and it's full

    Jake CooperFounder & CEO at Railway
  • Episode 5 · Out Thu, Nov 19

    Code review is dead, whether we admit it or not

    Ian NowlandHead of Hardware at BasetenCamille FournierVP of Engineering at CoreWeave
  • Episode 6 · Out Thu, Dec 3

    Who gives a damn what database you use?

    Sam LambertCEO at PlanetScale
  • Episode 7 · Out Thu, Dec 10

    Are models getting better faster than we're getting dumber?

    James CowlingCo-founder & CTO at Convex

On the calendar

  1. Episode 8 · Thu, Dec 17Guest to be announced, Co-founder and CEOGuest Name, Co-founder and CEO at Company

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