Darryl Lyons, co-founder and Chief Rainmaker at Rainstick, joins the show to dive into advancements in AgTech and how Rainstick is using bioelectricity to enhance agricultural productivity. They discuss how Rainstick mimics natural thunderstorms to create electric fields and frequencies that promote plant growth, challenges and breakthroughs in their research, and their participation in the AWS Compute for Climate Fellowship.Episode notes:Rainstick uses electricity to mimic the natural effects of lightning to grow crops bigger, faster, and more sustainably. Want to learn more about the Compute for Climate program? Check our podcast with Lisbeth Kaufman, Head of Climate Tech at AWS.Ryan wrote about how software is being applied to agriculture a few years ago. Connect with Darryl on LinkedIn.Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner WestCoastProjects for their answer to Test accuracy is greater than train accuracy what to do?.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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You’re probably underutilizing your GPUs
Ryan is joined by Jared Quincy Davis, CEO and co-founder of Mithril, to explore the importance of efficient resource allocation and GPU utilization in AI, the myth and misconceptions of the GPU shortage, and how the economics of GPU will change with new scheduling and utilization strategies. Episode notes:Mithril’s omnicloud platform aggregates and orchestrates multi-cloud GPUs, CPUs, and storage so you can access your infrastructure through a single platform.Connect with Jared on Twitter and LinkedIn.Shoutout to user Razzi Abuissa for winning a Populist badge on their answer to How to find last merge in git?.TRANSCRIPTSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Only you can stop AI database drops
Ryan is joined by David Hsu, CEO and founder of Retool, to explore how AI is transforming the role of a software developer into a software architect, the increasing accessibility of coding for non-engineers, and the importance of placing guardrails and higher-level programming primitives on AI coding assistants.Episode notes:Retool is an enterprise AI AppGen platform for internal software development, allowing you to create apps, agents, and workflows with any LLM, datasource, or API.David Hsu previously joined the podcast to complain about maintaining internal tools. Connect with David on Twitter.Today’s shoutout is for user Waseem Wisa, who won a Populist badge on their answer to Sass compiler throws 'undefined mixin' error when mixins are kept in seperate folder.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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How to create agents that people actually want to use
Ryan welcomes Assaf Elovic, head of AI at monday.com, to discuss creating AI tools that users will actually adopt, how they created their Monday Sidekick agent with the user experience in mind, and the opportunities that AI creates for better productivity and more efficiency.Episode notes:monday.com is a work management platform that allows you to plan and execute work across departments with a unified, AI-first product suite.Connect with Assaf on LinkedIn and Twitter. Congrats to Populist badge winner Vilx-, who received the badge for their answer to How do you provide a default type for generics?.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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The fastest agent in the race has the best evals
Ryan welcomes Benjamin Klieger, lead engineer at Groq, to explore the infrastructure behind AI agents, how you can turn a one-minute agent into a ten-second agent, and how they used fast inference and effective evals to build their efficient and reliable Compound agent. Episode notes: Groq delivers fast, low-cost inference using their custom-designed LPU, the first chip built for inference. Check out their agent, Compound, which can search the web and run code.Connect with Benjamin on LinkedIn and X. Congrats to user Bart Kiers for winning a Stellar Answer badge on their response to Regular expression to match a line that doesn't contain a word. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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