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Michel Tricot

Airbyte

  • 1 episode on Chain of Thought
  • 5 topics covered
  • 1 full transcript
  • Mar 2026 first on the show
Michel Tricot

Michel Tricot is the co-founder and CEO of Airbyte, the open-source data integration platform that reached a $1.5 billion valuation by giving away 600-plus connectors for free. On Chain of Thought he demoed how "context poisoning" causes agents to fail and how Airbyte’s context store cuts a query from three minutes to one while using far less of the context window.

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Latest episode with Michel Tricot · EP 52

Context Poisoning is Killing Your AI Agents: How to Stop it | Michel Tricot, Airbyte

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EP 52 Context Poisoning is Killing Your AI Agents: How to Stop it | Michel Tricot, Airbyte

  • Michel Tricot warns that an API connection does not guarantee useful data access. Rate limits and missing query capabilities can force agents to reconstruct the data-access infrastructure that warehouses already provide for analytics. Transcript at 5:18
  • Tricot shows why a simple user lookup can become repeated API pagination. His argument for a context store is to make those lookups efficient before the agent starts reasoning over the results. Transcript at 20:13
  • Matching a company across systems requires more than identical names. Tricot uses differently named Airbyte records in Zendesk and Salesforce to explain why agents need help resolving entities across tools. Transcript at 23:42

In their words

The big difference is that in the past, we've always been just a pipe. Now, because we want to have an offer that context store, we are also storing pieces of data. So on behalf of customers. So that's, I would say a bit of a different in terms of the business.

Michel Tricot Context Poisoning is Killing Your AI Agents: How to Stop it | Michel Tricot, Airbyte · 37:56

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Essays featuring Michel Tricot