Making artificial intelligence practical, productive & accessible to everyone. Practical AI is a show in which technology professionals, business people, studen...
Kyle Daigle, COO of GitHub, joins the hosts to discuss the evolving role of AI in software development, GitHub Copilotās impact, and the challenges of AI-assisted coding. The conversation covers licensing concerns, ethical considerations, and how developers can navigate these complexities. Kyle also shares his vision for ambient AI, which seamlessly integrates into workflows to enhance productivity and innovation, shaping the future of developer tools.Ā Featuring:Kyle Daigle ā LinkedInChris Benson ā Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XDaniel Whitenack ā Website, GitHub, XSponsors:Domo ā The AI and data products platform. Strengthen your entire data journey with Domoās AI and data products.
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Optimizing for efficiency with IBMās Granite
We often judge AI models by leaderboard scores, but what if efficiency matters more? Kate Soule from IBM joins us to discuss how Granite AI is rethinking AI at the edgeābreaking tasks into smaller, efficient components and co-designing models with hardware. She also shares why AI should prioritize efficiency frontiers over incremental benchmark gains and how seamless model routing can optimize performance.Ā Featuring:Kate Soule ā LinkedInChris Benson ā Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XDaniel Whitenack ā Website, GitHub, XLinks:IBM GraniteIBM Granite on Hugging FaceIBM Expands Granite Model Family with New Multi-Modal and Reasoning AI Built for the EnterpriseĀ
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It seems like all we hear about are the great use cases for GenAI, but where should you NOT be using the technology? On this episode Chris and Daniel share their hot takes and bad use cases. Some may surprise you!Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 3 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Domo ā The AI and data products platform. Strengthen your entire data journey with Domoās AI and data products.Ā Fly.io ā The home of Changelog.com ā Deploy your apps close to your users ā global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes.Ā Featuring:Chris Benson ā Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XDaniel Whitenack ā Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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Tool calling and agents
It seems like everyone is uses the term āagentā differently these days. In this episode, Chris and Daniel dig into the details of tool calling and its connection to agents. They help clarify how LLMs can ātalk toā and āinteract withā other systems like databases, APIs, web apps, etc. Along the way they share related learning resources.Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Notion ā Notion is a place where any team can write, plan, organize, and rediscover the joy of play. Itās a workspace designed not just for making progress, but getting inspired. Notion is for everyone ā whether youāre a Fortune 500 company or freelance designer, starting a new startup or a student juggling classes and clubs.Ā Featuring:Chris Benson ā Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XDaniel Whitenack ā Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:smolagentsHugging Face agents courseSomething missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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Making artificial intelligence practical, productive & accessible to everyone. Practical AI is a show in which technology professionals, business people, students, enthusiasts, and expert guests engage in lively discussions about Artificial Intelligence and related topics (Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Neural Networks, GANs, MLOps, AIOps, LLMs & more).
The focus is on productive implementations and real-world scenarios that are accessible to everyone. If you want to keep up with the latest advances in AI, while keeping one foot in the real world, then this is the show for you!