Agentic Conversations (formally mlops.community)

Caveman prompting has one rule: why use many words when few do the trick? It saves tokens on the way in and on the way out. Push it too far, though, and the output falls apart. So how far is too far? Nobody has...

What happens after you’ve built your first MCP server and actually have to make it work in the real world? In this episode, James Ward dives into the more advanced side of MCP: observability, evals, tool design, code...

Two people, a wrong turn into a back alley, a community garden, and about thirty minutes of arguing about protocols on the streets of Tokyo. The guest is Angie Jones , VP of Developer Experience at the Agentic AI...

Tool descriptions tell an agent what a tool does. They don't tell it how to use five tools together, in the right order, following your conventions. That gap is where this conversation lives. Filmed at AGNTCon + MCPCon...

A year ago, Palo Alto Networks built dashboards to track AI spend. Today those dashboards are useless, and the team that built them thinks that's the whole story. Recorded at FinOps X in San Diego, this conversation...

In this episode of Agentic Conversations, we sit down with Ambud Sharma , Principal Engineer at Pinterest , responsible for general technology efficiency, fresh off delivering a controversial keynote on AI...

AI models are starting to act like appliances, locked into one narrow way of working, instead of the flexible infrastructure they used to be. Drew Breunig , an AI and data strategist working with the Overture Maps...

Every engineer at Wayfair can now see, in real time, exactly what their code costs, and that's on purpose. Brent Eubanks , FinOps Architect at Wayfair , walks us through what happens when you stop treating AI spend as a...

OpenAI's Codex developer experience lead sits down with a former comedian turned ML engineering lead for a conversation about what happens when computer use agents stop being a novelty and start actually running your...

In this episode, we're joined by Josh Collier , FinOps Lead at Superhuman (formerly Grammarly), to explore what it really costs to run AI at scale and why the rules of the game changed faster than anyone expected. We...

In this episode, we're joined by David Soria Parra , Engineering Lead at Anthropic and one of the core maintainers of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), to explore the biggest evolution of the protocol since its launch...

Manish Dasaur is a Managing Director at PwC with over 20 years in data and AI, having helped 100+ clients navigate AI disruption and extract real business value from data, AI, and agentic AI initiatives. In this...

In this episode, we're joined by Jeremiah Lowin , Founder & CEO at Prefect and the creator of FastMCP, to explore how one of the most influential projects in the MCP ecosystem came to be - and where the protocol is...

In this episode, we're joined by Stephen O'Grady , Co-Founder and Principal Analyst at RedMonk , to explore one of the biggest shifts happening in software engineering: AI is making code dramatically cheaper to produce...

In this episode of Agentic Conversations, we're joined by Shaun Smith , software engineer, open source advocate, and contributor at Hugging Face , to explore how AI coding has changed almost overnight. We dive into...