Emir Karabeg, co-founder of Sim, shares the journey of building a visual, end-to-end platform for AI agents. He discusses their pivot from a failed idea, their explosive open-source growth strategy, the philosophy of building an AI-native workflow tool, and the operational culture that took them from a YC batch to 60,000 developers.
Adam D’Angelo (Quora/Poe) and Amjad Masad (Replit) debate the future of AI. They clash on whether LLMs are hitting limits, the timeline to AGI, and the societal impact of automating entry-level jobs while expert roles remain, potentially creating a "missing middle" in the workforce.
Giga co-founders Varun and Esha discuss their product-first approach to enterprise AI, detailing their innovative 'AI Forward-Deployed Engineer' model that enables rapid, scalable customer support automation. They break down how they solve complex, multi-party use cases for clients like DoorDash and share their vision for expanding beyond support to become a comprehensive ops automation platform.
Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy discusses the company's rapid transformation into an AI-first data platform. He introduces Snowflake Intelligence, an agentic system for enterprise data, and explores the strategic pivot, the ROI of AI for businesses, and the evolving roles of data platforms, partnerships, and search in the age of AI.
Siddharth Bidasaria from Anthropic shares the origin story of Claude Code, from a simple internal terminal app to a powerful coding agent. He discusses the team's core philosophy of 'letting the model cook,' the evolution of agentic capabilities, the critical role of verification and testing, and the future of complex, multi-agent systems.
In this discussion, experts Sridhar Muppidi and Cris Thomas explore the security implications of emerging AI technologies. They analyze new attack vectors using malicious AI agents, the critical gap in AI governance, the evolution of malware to mimic human behavior, and a novel smishing scheme designed to manipulate stock markets. The conversation also covers the current state and future of bug bounty programs in an AI-driven world.