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Conor Bronsdon

Host of Chain of Thought, a technical AI podcast. I build open-source agent tooling and write about what works when you put AI agents into production.

Location Seattle, WA Joined Joined on  Personal website https://chainofthought.show twitter website

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Review the boundary, not every line

Review the boundary, not every line

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A pre-flight checklist before domain continued pre-training

A pre-flight checklist before domain continued pre-training

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Five questions to ask before you trust an AI feature's eval score

Five questions to ask before you trust an AI feature's eval score

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Audit your week when agents write the code

Audit your week when agents write the code

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Design four tables before you write the agent

Design four tables before you write the agent

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Map your AI stack by layer before you pick vendors

Map your AI stack by layer before you pick vendors

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When to fine-tune a small model for one narrow task

When to fine-tune a small model for one narrow task

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What to alert on when your LLM feature is live

What to alert on when your LLM feature is live

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Choose in-the-loop or on-the-loop per action

Choose in-the-loop or on-the-loop per action

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Architecture choices that change memory, latency, and context

Architecture choices that change memory, latency, and context

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Re-reading Nov 2024 GenAI predictions as a builder playbook

Re-reading Nov 2024 GenAI predictions as a builder playbook

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Copy or federate? A per-source table for agent data access

Copy or federate? A per-source table for agent data access

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Screen an agent project for agent washing

Screen an agent project for agent washing

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Validate bounding boxes from a general vision model

Validate bounding boxes from a general vision model

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Five concepts to learn before you build with LLMs

Five concepts to learn before you build with LLMs

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Write your agent as functions first, add a framework later

Write your agent as functions first, add a framework later

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Pick the LLM eval metric before you build the dashboard

Pick the LLM eval metric before you build the dashboard

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Check each agent action after you grant the tool

Check each agent action after you grant the tool

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When to pay for a reasoning model on a request

When to pay for a reasoning model on a request

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Draft the file your agent loads at every session start

Draft the file your agent loads at every session start

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Design discovery, identity, and messages before adding agents

Design discovery, identity, and messages before adding agents

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Run GPU kernel tuning as an overnight search loop

Run GPU kernel tuning as an overnight search loop

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Ship the dependency fix before the exploit window closes

Ship the dependency fix before the exploit window closes

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Log what your tools put in the context window before blaming the model

Log what your tools put in the context window before blaming the model

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Test document extraction before an agent acts on it

Test document extraction before an agent acts on it

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Open weights in production: five builder takeaways from Chain of Thought

Open weights in production: five builder takeaways from Chain of Thought

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When your LLM plan moves a robot, clamp every command first

When your LLM plan moves a robot, clamp every command first

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Five agent episodes, and the build decision to take from each

Five agent episodes, and the build decision to take from each

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How to write tool descriptions agents won't misread

How to write tool descriptions agents won't misread

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Shipping practices from five AI engineering episodes

Shipping practices from five AI engineering episodes

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Checks to run before a small model serves traffic

Checks to run before a small model serves traffic

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Five podcast lessons on AI defensibility and go-to-market

Five podcast lessons on AI defensibility and go-to-market

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Tools before training for a domain legal agent

Tools before training for a domain legal agent

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Threat-model the model endpoint your app exposes to the internet

Threat-model the model endpoint your app exposes to the internet

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How to audit every credential your AI agent process can reach

How to audit every credential your AI agent process can reach

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Shrink a high-volume agent step after the strong model

Shrink a high-volume agent step after the strong model

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Scope chat agents with citations and multi-pass search

Scope chat agents with citations and multi-pass search

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Keep signing keys out of your AI agent's reach

Keep signing keys out of your AI agent's reach

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Labs: The Evolution of Continuous Merge

Labs: The Evolution of Continuous Merge

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6 Proven Strategies For Being A Great Platform Engineer

6 Proven Strategies For Being A Great Platform Engineer

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AI Tooling For Your Dev Team: To Adopt or Not to Adopt?

AI Tooling For Your Dev Team: To Adopt or Not to Adopt?

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Have Engineering Leaders Become Too Hands-off?

Have Engineering Leaders Become Too Hands-off?

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Reimagining DORA Metrics & Leveraging Feature Flags with Split

Reimagining DORA Metrics & Leveraging Feature Flags with Split

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The Art of Landing a DevRel Role with daily.dev

The Art of Landing a DevRel Role with daily.dev

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LB Labs: Inside the Top 10% of Engineering Orgs

LB Labs: Inside the Top 10% of Engineering Orgs

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You Are What You Build: Making Your Code More Human

You Are What You Build: Making Your Code More Human

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Healthcare’s Digital Accessibility Problem

Healthcare’s Digital Accessibility Problem

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4 Rules for Leading Dev Teams in Tough Economic Times

4 Rules for Leading Dev Teams in Tough Economic Times

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Decoding Duolingo: Returning to the Office, Enabling First-Time Managers & More

Decoding Duolingo: Returning to the Office, Enabling First-Time Managers & More

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6 Keys to Human-Centric Software Development

6 Keys to Human-Centric Software Development

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LB Labs: The Magic of Compound Efficiencies in Engineering

LB Labs: The Magic of Compound Efficiencies in Engineering

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From Twitter Spaces to Independent Artists: Leading Org-Based Innovation

From Twitter Spaces to Independent Artists: Leading Org-Based Innovation

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Tech Hiring in 2023: Trends, Predictions & Strategies for Success

Tech Hiring in 2023: Trends, Predictions & Strategies for Success

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How Open Source Enabled Kubernetes’ Success

How Open Source Enabled Kubernetes’ Success

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Upskilling Your Eng Team: The Problem with the Modern Approach to Learning

Upskilling Your Eng Team: The Problem with the Modern Approach to Learning

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Redefining Incident Response: Insights from the Chaos Engineer Behind Jeli.io

Redefining Incident Response: Insights from the Chaos Engineer Behind Jeli.io

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Coding Your Dreams into Reality: Lessons from an Engineer turned Entrepreneur

Coding Your Dreams into Reality: Lessons from an Engineer turned Entrepreneur

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4 Engineering Leadership Screw-Ups by the Best in the Business (And What We Learned From Them)

4 Engineering Leadership Screw-Ups by the Best in the Business (And What We Learned From Them)

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How Kyte's Head of Product & Engineering Survived SVB's Collapse & Outsmarted Uber

How Kyte's Head of Product & Engineering Survived SVB's Collapse & Outsmarted Uber

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The Art of Community Building

The Art of Community Building

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