Best Chain of Thought Episodes for Engineers
Shipping with AI — the craft, the workflow, and the reality checks.
Engineers usually get AI as a mandate, not a choice, which narrows the useful question to this: what does this change about how I build and ship? Every answer here comes from inside a system that was already in production. That includes the one where the answer is that it changes very little about the problems that were already hard.
- 1 250,000 Lines of Code/Week: Inside an AMD VP's Agent-First Workflow | Anush Elangovan Anush Elangovan, AMD Anush Elangovan on an agent-first coding workflow at real scale — what it looks like when AI writes most of the code.
- 2 Architecting AI Agents: The Shift from Models to Systems | Aishwarya Srinivasan Aishwarya Srinivasan, Fireworks AI Aishwarya Srinivasan on the shift from picking a model to architecting a system — how to actually structure an agent.
- 3 Vercel's Playbook for AI Agents: From Vibe Check to Production | Malte Ubl Malte Ubl, Vercel Vercel’s Malte Ubl on getting an agent from vibe-check to production — the engineering between a demo and a shipped feature.
- 4 Mindset Over Metrics: How to Approach AI Engineering | Hamel Husain Hamel Husain, Parlance Labs Hamel Husain on the mindset that separates engineers who ship reliable AI from those who chase metrics. The discipline, distilled.
- 5 AI Won't Solve Your Toughest Engineering Problems | Honeycomb’s Charity Majors Charity Majors, Honeycomb Charity Majors’ production-reliability reality check — what AI does and doesn’t fix about your hardest engineering problems.
- Best Chain of Thought Episodes for AI Founders Building an AI company — defensibility, GTM, and the market reality.
- Best Chain of Thought Episodes on AI Agents How agents actually work — architecture, memory, context, frameworks.
- Best Chain of Thought Episodes on AI Evaluation Measuring whether AI actually works — evals, reliability, trust.
- Best Chain of Thought Episodes on Agent Memory How agents remember — memory stores, context engineering, and what breaks without them.
- Best Chain of Thought Episodes on Multi-Agent Systems Many agents, one system — orchestration patterns, protocols, and the overhead they add.
- Best Chain of Thought Episodes on Open Source AI Open weights, open ecosystems, and what they actually cost in production.
- Best Chain of Thought Episodes on AI Coding Agents What changes downstream when agents write most of the code.
- Best Chain of Thought Episodes for Enterprise AI Leaders Getting AI past the pilot — ROI, rollout, and the data underneath it.
- Best Chain of Thought Episodes on AI Security Attacking agents, defending them, and the part software cannot cover.
- Best Chain of Thought Episodes on RAG & Retrieval Getting the right context to the model: chunking, vectors, graphs, and what breaks at scale.