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Vanishing Gradients

Hugo Bowne-Anderson
Machine Learning
Large Language Models
Data Science
Artificial Intelligence
Generative AI
Probable
Prompt Engineering
Fine Tuning
Visualization
Pre-Training
Scikit-Learn
Open Source Collaboration
Fast.ai
Data Management
Statistical Thinking
Covid-19
Developer Tools
Open Source
Conversational AI
Data Journalism

A podcast for people who build with AI. Long-format conversations with people shaping the field about agents, evals, multimodal systems, data infrastructure, and the tools behind them. Guests include Jeremy Howard (fast.ai), Hamel Husain (Parlance Labs), Shreya Shankar (UC Berkeley), Wes McKinney (creator of pandas), Samuel Colvin (Pydantic) and more. hugobowne.substack.com

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I often see what I would consider to be b******t evals, especially in data, like write this dumb SQL. Almost every one of these dumb SQL questions that I’ve seen for benchmarks are just so either obviously easy or overwhelmingly adversarial. They jus... more

Our thesis is that AI is still just engineering… those people who tell us for fun and profit, that somehow AI is so, so profound, so new, so different from anything that’s gone before that it somehow eclipses the need for good engineering practice ar... more

There’s a company who spent almost $50,000 because an agent went into an infinite loop and they forgot about it for a month.

It had no failures and I guess no one was monitoring these costs. It’s nice that people do write about that in the database ... more

> It’s the agent writing the code. And it’s the development loop of writing the code, building testing, write the code, build test and iterating. And so I do think we’ll see for many types of software, a shift away from Python towards other programmi... more

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Eleanor Berger
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Isaac Flaath
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Eric Ma
Leads Research Data Science in the Data Science and AI Group at Moderna Therapeutics
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Episode: Episode 66: The Agent Paradox - Why Moderna's Most Productive AI Systems Aren't Agents
Jeff Huber
CEO and co-founder of Chroma, building modern search infrastructure for AI
Chroma
Episode: Episode 65: The Rise of Agentic Search
Ravin Kumar
Researcher at Google DeepMind focused on AI and generative models
Google DeepMind
Episode: Episode 63: Why Gemini 3 Will Change How You Build AI Agents with Ravin Kumar (Google DeepMind)
Dr. Randall Olson
Co-founder of Wyrd Studios, an expert in AI applications and executive strategy
Wyrd Studios
Episode: Episode 62: Practical AI at Work: How Execs and Developers Can Actually Use LLMs
Bryan Bischof
Guest caller from Theory Ventures discussing failure analysis in AI.
Theory Ventures
Episode: Episode 60: 10 Things I Hate About AI Evals with Hamel Husain
John Berryman
Founder of Arcturus Labs, author of Prompt Engineering for LLMs, and early engineer on GitHub Copilot.
Arcturus Labs
Episode: Episode 59: Patterns and Anti-Patterns For Building with AI
Thomas Wiecki
Founder of PyMC Labs and co-author of PyMC
PyMC Labs
Episode: Episode 58: Building GenAI Systems That Make Business Decisions with Thomas Wiecki (PyMC Labs)

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Hugo Bowne-Anderson
Host of Vanishing Gradients, AI and data tooling writer/educator; focuses on durable agents, agentic search, and practical AI deployments.

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4.8 out of 5 stars from 45 ratings
  • Host may please consider to say more in less; the sweet spot is under 40 minutes.

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    MrDaggubati
    18 days ago
  • Substantive!

    Practical, smart content from an industry veteran

    Apple Podcasts
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    eddielandes
    United States4 months ago
  • Best data science podcast to come out in a while

    [see title]

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    vishalthatsme
    United States4 years ago

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Best data science podcast to come out in a while.
Substantive! Insightful and practical content from an industry veteran.
The depth and breadth of guests keep every episode valuable for practitioners.

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Episode 71: Durable Agents - How to Build AI Systems That Survive a Crash with Samuel Colvin
Q: Could you just give us a bit of your background?
Pydantic predates Gen.AI by a few years and started as a project in 2017 out of a need to validate data more efficiently.
Episode 70: 1,400 Production AI Deployments
Q: What are your thoughts on context engineering and its importance in AI development?
Context engineering has emerged as a discipline to manage the limited context of LLMs, and it's essential to find ways to optimize context usage to ensure systems operate effectively without overwhelming token limits.
Episode 70: 1,400 Production AI Deployments
Q: What has changed in the development of AI since the last time we talked?
There has been a step function improvement in model performance, making more reliable agentic systems possible and leading to greater adoption in enterprise environments.
Episode 43: Tales from 400+ LLM Deployments: Building Reliable AI Agents in Production
Q: What are the top three takeaways from analyzing the LLM deployments?
There is wide variance in use cases, the fundamentals still matter, and successful projects are driven by user-centered problems rather than just technology.
Episode 64: Data Science Meets Agentic AI with Michael Kennedy (Talk Python)
Q: Is someone who's just learned a bit of Python able to jump in and really build with this?
I would say yes. If you're not very good with Python, it's not a massive advantage to be a Python expert.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Vanishing Gradients

What is Vanishing Gradients about and what kind of topics does it cover?

This show focuses on AI engineering, production systems, and the practical realities of building with large language models, agents, and data infrastructure. Episodes frequently explore durable and agentic AI, robust evaluation, context engineering, and the evolving tooling around deployment, observability, and multi-tool agent systems. Guests come from academia and industry and include researchers, startup founders, and practitioners who share hands-on lessons, case studies, and strategies for making AI systems reliable, scalable, and cost-effective. The format tends to center on concrete problems, evolving best practices, and the trade-offs of production AI, making it a strong resource for technical leaders, engineers, and data scientists... more

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