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Behnam Bastani built the infrastructure that powers Meta's VR ecosystem and Roblox's AI moderation at scale. Now he's tackling a bigger problem: how to bring AI inference anywhere, on any hardware, without sacrificing performance. We sat down with him to explore why the future of AI isn't in centralized cloud compute—it's distributed, local, and fundamentally different from what we're building today.
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Dave Garcia spent years chasing AI before stepping back to ask the real question: what problems are we actually solving? In this episode, the Pensero co-founder breaks down why measuring AI impact—not just adoption—is the key to building something that actually matters in the tech management space.
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Rickard Hansson is back on Code Story with a bold new vision for AI-powered app development. After building Weavy, he's now tackling the core problem with today's AI builders: they're gambling on probabilistic models to do deterministic work. With Gainable, he's flipped the script entirely—moving the LLM earlier in the pipeline and letting a compiler handle the actual coding.
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Virginia Szepietowski discovered a hidden crisis in wastewater treatment: operators have been using the same microscope-based methods since the 1970s to protect our waterways. Now, she's building Nyad AI to automate this critical process—and her journey from law school to water tech reveals surprising lessons about MVP simplicity, customer obsession, and hiring for grit.
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Richard Luna, founder of Protected Harbor, challenges the tech industry's obsession with cutting-edge solutions. His unconventional take? Sometimes the most valuable infrastructure work isn't flashy—it's fundamental, application-aware, and unglamorous.
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Traditional freelance marketplaces like Upwork and Fiverr weren't built for enterprise workflows. Danny Gal, CEO of Proteams, is solving this by creating managed engineering teams that actually scale with large global organizations—and he's doing it profitably from day one.
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WebSockets are supposed to power interactive, real-time experiences—but they come with a hidden cost. Irina Nazarova, CEO of Evil Martians and co-founder of AnyCable, explains why traditional monolithic architectures break under WebSocket load, and how decoupling the real-time layer became the solution that changed everything.
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Emilie Schario, Co-Founder and Head of Product & Engineering at Kilo, breaks down why throwing money at expensive AI models doesn't translate to shipping more code. In this episode, she shares how Kilo is changing the game with model freedom, practical engineering decisions, and a brutally honest approach to product prioritization that every technical founder needs to hear.
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The perishable supply chain moves roughly one-third of North America's fresh food, but it's still stuck in a world of manual processes, outdated pricing data, and fragmented systems. We sat down with Sid Dixit, CTO of iTradeNetwork, to explore how AI agents are revolutionizing order intake, pricing intelligence, and supply chain automation—one strawberry at a time.
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Real startup founders share their biggest mistakes — from a $45,000 outsourcing disaster to a year spent building a product that sold to just one customer. Here's what they learned.
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