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Chain of Thought Podcast

Where builders come to reason through what's changing in AI and software infrastructure. Hosted by someone building in it every day.

  • 79 episodes
  • 82 guests
  • 69 companies
  • 1,200+ newsletter subscribers
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Conor Bronsdon in conversation with a guest on the Chain of Thought set — two chairs, studio lighting, and a camera rig between them

Chain of Thought is a podcast about AI infrastructure and the people building it. Host Conor Bronsdon sits down with engineers, founders, and operators shipping AI across model infrastructure, inference platforms, agent frameworks, evaluation, and developer tools. They talk through what’s working in production, what isn’t, and why.

Guests have come from NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, AMD, Cisco, Databricks, MongoDB, Block, Vercel, Oracle, Neo4j, LlamaIndex, Snorkel AI, Superhuman, and many more. Every episode on this site carries its full transcript, show notes, and chapters, so you can read a conversation end to end or jump to the part you came for.

Read the engineering decisions behind the conversations

The archive follows practical choices: which model to use, what context to supply, how to evaluate an agent and who owns its actions in production. The topic hubs group conversations around those choices. The guest directory connects each speaker to their episodes and transcript excerpts.

For a first listen, use Start here. For a specific decision, try fine-tuning vs RAG vs prompting or who reviews AI-generated code. These explainers link the discussion back to the episodes, so you can check a guest's wording and follow the surrounding argument.

The site also has a glossary for unfamiliar terms, debates that compare guests' positions, and a small Labs game, Would you merge this? Read them alongside the original conversations: a guest's deployment experience is useful context for your own tests, rather than a guarantee that the same approach fits your workload.

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The host

Conor Bronsdon is a builder, host, and angel investor working in AI infrastructure and developer tools. He led technical ecosystem at Modular, which Qualcomm acquired in July 2026 in a reported $4 billion deal, and now consults on developer ecosystems and technical marketing. Before that he was an early team member at Galileo (acquired by Cisco), leading developer awareness, and at LinearB he ran developer marketing and was GM of the Dev Interrupted podcast and community, growing it from zero to 19,000+ subscribers.

Conor invests in early-stage AI infrastructure, developer tools, and robotics, and has written widely on AI and other topics, with his work featured in outlets including The New York Times and Vox. More at conorbronsdon.com.

His bylined articles for Galileo cover agent measurement, agentic RAG, and multi-agent security. His publication archive lists more of his work.

Behind the scenes of a Chain of Thought recording: a laptop running the audio mixer and a video switcher with a multi-camera monitor in the foreground, with Conor Bronsdon seated on set between two cinema cameras

Chain of Thought reaches AI engineers, founders, and platform leads. Rates and inventory at sponsor.chainofthought.show.