High Agency: The Podcast for AI Builders
High Agency is the podcast for AI builders. If you’re trying to understand how to successfully build AI products with Large Language Models and Generative AI then this podcast is made for you. Each week we interview leaders at companies building on the frontier who have already succeeded with AI in production. We share their stories, lessons and playbooks so you can build more quickly and with confidence.
AI is moving incredibly fast and no-one is truly an expert yet, High Agency is for people who are learning by doing and will share knowledge through the community.
Where to find us: https://hubs.ly/Q02z2HR40
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 45 minutes
- Episodes
- 34
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Building the Nervous System for AI with Russ d'Sa from LiveKit
In this episode, LiveKit CEO Russ d'Sa explores the critical role of real-time communication infrastructure in the AI revolution. From building voice demos to powering OpenAI's ChatGPT, he shares in…
From PyTorch to Fireworks AI: Lin Qiao on Building AI Infrastructure
This week we’re talking to Lin Qiao, former PyTorch lead at Meta and current CEO of Fireworks AI. We discuss the evolution of AI frameworks, the challenges of optimizing inference for generative AI, …
How Paras Jain is building the future of AI video creation
In this episode of High Agency, we are speaking to Paras Jain who is the CEO of AI video generation startup Genmo. Paras shares insights from his experience working on autonomous vehicles, why he cho…
AI at Scale: Lessons from Gusto's $9.5 billion journey with Eddie Kim & Ali Rowghani
In this week’s episode of the High Agency podcast, Humanloop Co-Founder and CEO Raza Habib sat down with Eddie Kim, co-founder and Head of Technology at Gusto and guest host Ali Rowghani to discuss h…
Building the first LLM-based search engine for developers with Michael Royzen
In this episode, we sit down with Michael Royzen, CEO and co-founder of Phind. Michael shares insights from his journey in building the first LLM-based search engine for developers, the challenges of…
Contrarian Guide to AI: Jason Liu on Betting Against Agents while Doubling Down on RAG & Fine-Tuning
Jason Liu is a true Renaissance Man in the world of AI. He began his career working on traditional ML recommender systems at tech giants like Meta and Stitch Fix and quickly pivoted into LLMs app dev…
What comes after Open AI? Logan Kilpatrick on how you should prepare for the future of LLMs
If you need to understand the future trajectory of AI, Logan Kilpatrick will help you do just that. Having seen the frontier at both OpenAI and Google.
Logan led developer relations at OpenAI before…
AI's Memory Upgrade: Max Rumpf on how to build advanced RAG systems
I'm excited to share this conversation with Max Rumpf the founder of Sid.AI. I wanted to speak to Max because Retrieval Augmented generation has become core to building AI applications and he knows m…
Building AI Products at Scale: Lessons from Zapier's CEO
In this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Wade Foster, the founder and CEO of Zapier. We discussed Zapier's journey with AI, from their early experiments to the company-wide AI hackathon t…
Inventing the AI Engineer
In this episode, I chatted with Shawn Wang about his upcoming AI engineering conference and what an AI engineer really is. It's been a year since he penned the viral essay "Rise of the AI Engineer' a…
Building an AI coding assistant with Beyang Liu CTO of Sourcegraph
Sourcegraph have built the most popular open source AI coding tool in both the dev community and the Fortune 500. I sat down with Beyang Liu their CTO and cofounder to find out how they did it.
We div…
Evaluating LLMs the Right Way: Lessons from Hex's Journey
I recently sat down with Bryan Bischof, AI lead at Hex, to dive deep into how they evaluate LLMs to ship reliable AI agents. Hex has deployed AI assistants that can automatically generate SQL queries…
Building reliable AI agents with Cai GoGwilt CTO of Ironclad
50% of AI contracts at Ironclad’s largest customers are now automatically negotiated with the help of generative AI. Ironclad were one of the earliest adopters of LLMs, starting when the best model w…
Welcome to the High Agency podcast!
Welcome to very first episode of the High Agency podcast! High Agency is a new podcast from Humanloop.
Every week, I (Raza Habib) will interview leaders from companies, who have already succeeded with…