Mati and Piotr, the founders of ElevenLabs, discuss their journey from a weekend project to a major player in voice AI. They cover their unique remote-first culture, their philosophy of combining product and research, and their vision for voice as the next fundamental human-computer interface, aiming to create AI that can pass a 'vocal Turing test'.
Calvin French-Owen, co-founder of Segment and former OpenAI Codex team member, discusses the rise of powerful coding agents. He contrasts the architectures of Codex and Claude Code, explores the future of work where engineers become managers of AI, and shares tips for becoming a top 1% power user.
CircleCI's Olaf Molenveld and AWS's Julian Wood explore the evolution of CI/CD, drawing parallels between managing production code and the 'factory' that builds it. They cover the shift to microservices pipelines, optimization strategies, platform engineering trends, and how AI is set to reshape DevOps by acting as an expert system for developers.
Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki discusses the company's 20-year vision to build the "Holodeck," a high-fidelity, 4D simulation for human co-experience. He explains how Roblox is leveraging its 13 billion monthly hours of vector data to train native AI models for advanced NPCs, moving beyond simple LLMs to create "virtual doppelgängers." Baszucki also covers the future of immersive communication, AI's role in transforming game creation, and Roblox's unique, data-driven approach to hiring talent.
Carina Hong, Founder & CEO of Axiom, discusses building a self-improving AI reasoning engine that combines generation and verification. Starting with formal mathematics, Axiom's system has achieved superhuman results on the notoriously difficult Putnam Exam by leveraging formal languages like Lean to overcome the probabilistic and unverifiable nature of standard LLMs. Hong explores how this technology can solve major bottlenecks in hardware and software verification, code migration, and database consistency, and what it means for the future of mathematical research.
Authors Martin Štefanko and Jan Martiška discuss their book "Quarkus in Action," detailing the framework's powerful developer experience, the trade-offs between JVM and native compilation, and its cloud-native capabilities. They explore the book's structure, which guides readers through building a complex microservices application to showcase over 29 different extensions, from REST and gRPC to reactive messaging and cloud deployment.