Jan 02, 2026

Building Software That Survives • Michael Nygard & Charles Humble

Michael Nygard, author of 'Release It!' and Chief Architect at Nubank, explores the complexities of technical leadership at scale. He discusses the nuanced relationship between centralization and autonomy, the practical implications of Conway's Law on software and communication structures, and how well-defined architectural boundaries can reduce the need for constant organizational alignment. Drawing on his experiences at Sabre and Nubank, Nygard provides insights into building resilient systems and effective, autonomous teams.

Jan 02, 2026

AI year in review: Trends shaping 2026

In this special year-end episode, experts from the Mixture of Experts podcast review the biggest AI moments of 2025 and predict what's next for 2026. The discussion covers the rise of "super agents" and the battle for the user interface, open source's breakout year and its remaining challenges, the AI hardware supply crisis and the push for efficiency, and the future of modular, multimodal AI systems.

Dec 31, 2025

The Algorithm That IS The Scientific Method [Dr. Jeff Beck]

Dr. Jeff Beck argues that the future of AI lies not in scaling up large language models, but in building systems that mirror the brain's approach to understanding the world. He posits that true intelligence is grounded in physics and object-centered models, not language. Beck's vision involves creating AI composed of numerous small, modular models—much like a video game engine—that can be dynamically combined, updated through continual learning, and understand the world through causal relationships and forces. This approach, he claims, will solve key challenges in generalization, robotics, and alignment by enabling machines to 'know what they don't know' and reason about the physical world in a way that is fundamentally similar to humans.

Dec 30, 2025

Fundamentals of DevOps & Software Delivery • Yevgeniy "Jim" Brikman & Kief Morris

Yevgeniy "Jim" Brikman, author of "Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery," discusses his journey from app developer to DevOps advocate, triggered by LinkedIn's deployment crisis. The discussion with Kief Morris explores the practical definition of DevOps, the relationship between infrastructure as code and application orchestration, the necessity of frameworks over custom wrapper scripts, and emerging paradigms including infrastructure from code, infrastructure as graph models, and interactive runbooks.

Dec 30, 2025

953: Beyond “Agent Washing”: AI Systems That Actually Deliver ROI— with Dell’s Global CTO John Roese

John Roese, Dell's Global CTO, discusses the "agent-washing" phenomenon and how Dell achieved a $10 billion revenue boost while cutting costs through disciplined AI adoption. He introduces the concept of the "knowledge layer" as a crucial new component in AI architecture and details his 2026 predictions. These include a focus on governance, a four-part technical definition for agentic AI systems, the need for modern resiliency in AI factories, and the maturation of sovereign AI strategies.

Dec 29, 2025

Memory in LLMs: Weights and Activations - Jack Morris, Cornell

This talk explores the limitations of current methods for providing knowledge to LLMs, such as large context windows and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). The speaker argues that the future lies in training knowledge directly into the model's weights. This is achieved through a combination of generating large synthetic datasets from small amounts of source material and using parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) techniques like LoRA to avoid catastrophic forgetting. The goal is to create more capable, personalized, and efficient models by fundamentally altering how they store and access information.