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⚡️ The State of AI Engineer Hiring: Cheating, AI Adoption,Junior Devs — Vivek Ravisankar, HackerRank
- ▶ 4:56 Vivek Ravisankar There's everything from OpenAI, NVIDIA, Amazon, Salesforce, all of these, we work with all of the, all of the customers.
- ▶ 8:18 Vivek Ravisankar Uh, so prior to, prior to starting the company, I used to work at Amazon in India as a developer.
- ▶ 13:31 Vivek Ravisankar I got my job at Amazon.
Terminal-Bench 2.0: the most impt coding agent benchmark of 2025 gets a v2! Launch + Q&A w/ founders
- ▶ 1:15 Mike Merrill Um, and a great example of this is if you've ever tried to launch an EC two instance from the GUI.
Breaking AI to Fix It: Ian Webster's Journey from Discord's Clyde to Promptfoo's $18M Series A
- ▶ 32:31 Ian Webster I don't know if I'm gonna make people angry by saying that, um, maybe some, some of my competitors, but, like, I think guardrails are, are a commodity, um, as evidenced by the fact that, like, 95% of the people that we work with are just…
Terminal-Bench: Pushing Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Factory Droid, et al to the limits
- ▶ 7:09 Mike Merrill You know, like the example that I like to give is if you've ever tried to launch an EC two instance through AWS, like clicking through their GUI, it's probably 20, 30 clicks to get that thing off the ground, you know, collecting,…
- ▶ 7:09 Mike Merrill You know, like the example that I like to give is if you've ever tried to launch an EC two instance through AWS, like clicking through their GUI, it's probably 20, 30 clicks to get that thing off the ground, you know, collecting,…
Why RL Won — Kyle Corbitt, OpenPipe (acq. CoreWeave)
- ▶ 47:39 Alessio Fanelli You know, they will subsidize some of it just the same way, you know, if you go on SM compute, SF compute, like you pay a buck 40 for like an H 100 instead of like the two 20 listed price on AWS.
The antidote to AI fatigue — Answer.ai Solveit
- ▶ 4:59 Jeremy Howard No AWS, no Google Cloud, whatever.
Taste is your Moat (Dylan Field of Figma)
- ▶ 5:42 Dylan Field We were at, like, a wooden table outside in some, like, Santa Cruz, you know, nature setting, and he's on the Wi-Fi, which is super slow, connecting to AWS, and he's like, look at this. 2 times in the scene
⚡️No, Don't Do Palantir for AI - Brendan Falk, Hercules (AUDIO FIXED)
- ▶ 1:35 Brendan Falk We got acquired by AWS in.
- ▶ 1:43 Shawn Wang Which, which by the way, I've heard very good things from other, mostly Amazon people, but like, yeah, actually a very good CLI. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:01 Brendan Falk And so what I did was I moved to this crazy team called the Amazon private equity business development team. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:16 Brendan Falk So I was working with all of these private equity backed customers of AWS on AI transformations effectively. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:13 Brendan Falk They saw on the news, hey, Klarna has saved tens of millions of dollars by, uh, you know, customer service automations, and Amazon saves this amount, and this company saves hundreds of millions of dollars here. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:59 Brendan Falk And so I'm obviously not going to Davos, maybe not yet at least, but I was, one of the theories here was one, I have some connections through Amazon.
- ▶ 14:03 Brendan Falk And I did this at Amazon was we would basically put together a list of use cases, and then we'd plot them on this graph.
- ▶ 25:24 Brendan Falk When we got acquired by AWS, we actually had a non-compete for our product for two years.
A Technical History of Generative Media
- ▶ 0:26 unnamed speaker And you were just coming out of Amazon.
- ▶ 10:59 Batuhan Taskaya So it's like, we were at like the right time, you know, the very, it was like, uh, the, the, actually like the, the, the space was actually so, so much worse than what we have today, where like the running basic, like stable diffusion, 1.5…
- ▶ 17:38 Gorkem Yurtseven I think Amazon famously did a, did a, uh, a very big AB test on this. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:07 Batuhan Taskaya I mean, we are any cloud provider, like what, what, what, what do they think in like AWS or Google cloud or these new clouds?
⚡️Launching Ona: Coding Agent with Fully Sandboxed Cloud Environment
- ▶ 21:33 Johannes (Johannes Landgraf) And so we run inside of the network of our customers, which gives us more flexibility where we can connect also to their like bedrock,
Better Data is All You Need — Ari Morcos, Datology
- ▶ 12:11 Ari Morcos Like if you want to assemble ImageNet, you have to go to MTurk and get a whole bunch of
- ▶ 59:52 Ari Morcos And now this has largely been commoditized by things like SageMaker and Together and lots of different folks that help you on the training side.
Long Live Context Engineering - with Jeff Huber of Chroma
- ▶ 54:17 Shawn Wang And part of that is like, it's part of that is cloud engineering, because a lot of times you're just dealing with AWS.
The AI Agenda: GPT5 leaks and the business of AI News — Steph Palazzolo, The Information
- ▶ 5:01 Stephanie Palazzolo And so we have reporters who are covering like the major tech companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, but then we also have reporters that are covering like cloud more broadly or chips or like crypto.
- ▶ 9:16 Stephanie Palazzolo So you're like a knockoff Amazon or like a knockoff like Azure or Google cloud, um, which is like a bit derogatory.
🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R)
Cline: The Collaborative AI Coder
- ▶ 54:51 Saoud (Saud) Rizwan So you can bring API keys to OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock. 2 times in the scene
⚡️Ranking Agentic LLMs — Pratik Bhavsar, Galileo
- ▶ 8:10 Pratik Bhavsar Only model that is cheaper than it is, and performance is from Amazon.
⚡️Warp 2.0: the Agentic Development Environment - Zach Lloyd and Ben Holmes
- ▶ 2:50 Shawn Wang So like I started installing this, uh, this new project called Home Assistant, which is kind of like an open source Alexa.
[AIEWF Preview] Containing Agent Chaos — Solomon Hykes
- ▶ 26:19 unnamed speaker But, like, you know, to give them my AWS account and just go, that's, like, that's tricky.
Voice AI Masterclass — Kwindla Hultman Kramer and swyx
- ▶ 3:32 Kwindla Hultman Kramer We'll have people from open AI and from deep mind and from Nvidia and from AWS doing office hours.
Why Every Agent needs Open Source Cloud Sandboxes
- ▶ 27:36 Vasek Mlejnsky You know, with the DevTools, especially Infra, I always see this pattern, and I had this, like, naive idea, idea as well, that the founder says, like, oh, this AWS pricing, it's terrible, like, you, or GCP, like, you have no idea what you…
- ▶ 1:00:44 Vasek Mlejnsky Uh, probably down the road somewhere like you, we want to build essentially like the new AWS, but for LLMs.
SF Compute: Commoditizing Compute
- ▶ 2:35 Evan Conrad So if you take like Gusto, for example, or Rippling, or an HR service like this, when they're buying from an AWS or a GCP, um, they're buying CPUs and they're running web servers.
- ▶ 15:46 Evan Conrad It's really bad for, um, NVIDIA if you have customer concentration, and Microsoft and, um, Google and Amazon, like,
npm install Agents — with Sunil Pai and Rita Kozlov (VP AI) of Cloudflare
- ▶ 33:54 Shawn Wang I still remember, like I was at AWS when we shipped, uh, you know, like container serverless containers and everyone's like, what the hell does that mean?
Snipd: The AI Podcast App for Learning — with CEO Kevin Ben-Smith
- ▶ 54:45 Kevin Ben-Smith Like I see them a bit, like I see OpenAI and all of these other providers, I see them a bit as the, like as the Amazon
- ▶ 54:54 Kevin Ben-Smith Sorry, AWS of, of AI. 3 times in the scene
Browserbase: Browser Infrastructure For Your AI Agents
- ▶ 13:14 Paul Klein Well, I, we use Amazon at browser base. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:03 Paul Klein Let's get an EC two server running. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:22 Paul Klein Now, all of a sudden you're using ECS or EKS, the Kubernetes or container solutions by Amazon.
- ▶ 14:22 Paul Klein Now, all of a sudden you're using ECS or EKS, the Kubernetes or container solutions by Amazon.
- ▶ 26:48 Paul Klein And I got rejected from every single one of them except for Twilio and then eventually Amazon.
Why is everyone cloning Deep Research?
- ▶ 48:29 Arush Sehgal You guys were both at Amazon, by the way.
Bee AI: The Wearable Ambient Agent
- ▶ 1:03:37 Ethan Sutin I was like, yeah, when we were testing the agent, like a bunch of candles from Amazon showed up at her door.
The AI Architect: Bret Taylor
- ▶ 16:43 Bret Taylor You kind of know how to, how databases work, how to build auto scaling with your AWS cluster, whatever, you know, it's just, you're just applying best practices to yet another problem.
- ▶ 23:20 Bret Taylor So open AI and Microsoft, Anthropic and Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, XAI, which is very well capitalized now.
- ▶ 1:03:28 Bret Taylor And one way to think about it's like a little bit reductive is like, you know, look at startups versus larger companies, like companies like Google and Amazon have so many more engineers than the startup, but then some startups still win.
Agent Engineering with Pydantic + Graphs — with Samuel Colvin, CEO of Pydantic Logfire
- ▶ 31:06 Samuel Colvin Yeah, and there's also, because like Vertex will, there's Vertex and Bedrock, which to one extent or another, 2 times in the scene
Beating OpenAI and Anthropic by Looking At Data: the new #1 on SWE-Bench w/ W&B CTO Shawn Lewis
- ▶ 29:13 Shawn Lewis So I don't think anybody realizes that that's there because unfortunately the trajectories directory, when you submit, ends up getting uploaded into S three
- ▶ 29:41 Shawn Lewis Yeah, so, like, if you want, like, alpha about how to make AI agents, like, go figure out the crazy process to get your, uh, AWS credentials and download all these trajectories and what people have written.
Outlasting Noam Shazeer, Crowdsourcing Chai AI w/ 1.4m DAU — with William Beauchamp, Chai Research
- ▶ 40:43 William Beauchamp But it was like, it was kind of like just the, you know, if you listen to like an audible or a Kindle or something, like you just hear this voice and it's like, you don't go like, wow, this is, this is special, right?
- ▶ 46:02 William Beauchamp So that's why it doesn't do well on Amazon. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:52 William Beauchamp You know, you've got a long, long way to go before the amazon.coms are like these huge multi-trillion dollar businesses that every single person uses.
DeepSeek V3, SGLang, and the state of Open Model Inference in 2025 (Quantization, MoEs, Pricing)
- ▶ 16:53 unnamed speaker And we're seeing this more and more where a customer has big committed resources inside of their AWS VPC or, or GCP or, or, or what have you.
- ▶ 31:08 unnamed speaker So, you know, there are models on base end today that have 50 replicas in GCP East and, uh, 80 replicas in, in, uh, AWS West and, and Oracle in, in London, um, et cetera.
Beating Google at Search with Neural PageRank and $5M of H200s — with Will Bryk of Exa.ai
2024 Year in Review: The Big Scaling Debate, the Four Wars of AI, Top Themes and the Rise of Agents
- ▶ 2:46 Alessio Fanelli I was at, um, AWS to reinvent and the line to get into like the
- ▶ 41:07 Shawn Wang Uh, we haven't done any scale yet, but I think Amazon, maybe kind of a sleeper one, Amazon, in a sense of like, they, at reInvent, I wasn't expecting them to do so well, but they are now a foundation model lab. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:29 Alessio Fanelli I think like a lot of AWS customers, you know, they do this big reserve instance contracts and now they gotta use their money. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:20:12 Shawn Wang The most recent one is Amazon Nova, which we briefly, briefly talked about on the pod. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:20:16 Shawn Wang Where, um, that they've really sort of come in and, you know, basically offered Amazon Basics LLM, uh, where Amazon Pro, Nova Pro, Nova Lite, and Nova Micro are the efficient frontier for, uh, their intelligence levels of 1200 to 1300. 2 times in the scene
Best of 2024 in Agents (from #1 on SWE-Bench Full, Prof. Graham Neubig of OpenHands/AllHands)
- ▶ 21:52 Graham Neubig Um, and on the web, this is kind of tricky because, like, how do you rewind when you accidentally ordered something you don't want on Amazon?
2024 in Post-Transformer Architectures: State Space Models, RWKV [Latent Space LIVE! @ NeurIPS 2024]
Best of 2024: Open Models [LS LIVE! at NeurIPS 2024]
- ▶ 28:08 unnamed speaker So you can use our model on Google Cloud, AWS, Azure, uh, Snowflake, IBM.
0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo)
- ▶ 34:12 Itamar Friedman Yeah, but, uh, you do see a lot of, uh, type of models that, that are dedicated for embedding, and for different spaces, different, like, fields, et cetera, and I, I, I'm not aware, like, uh, and I know that, uh, if you go to the bedrock,…
- ▶ 34:54 Itamar Friedman The other could be, like, if it's air-gapped completely, or you want VPC, and then you have Azure, GCP, and AWS, which is different.
- ▶ 38:55 Eric Simons Are you kind of plugging into, you know, Azure's OpenAI stuff and AWS's Bedrock, you know, Claude stuff, or like, or are they just like running stuff on GPUs? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:55 Eric Simons Are you kind of plugging into, you know, Azure's OpenAI stuff and AWS's Bedrock, you know, Claude stuff, or like, or are they just like running stuff on GPUs? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:23 Itamar Friedman I want only AWS and VPC on AWS, no matter what. 2 times in the scene
[Paper Club] Embeddings in 2024: OpenAI, Nomic Embed, Jina Embed, cde-small-v1 - with swyx
- ▶ 17:16 unnamed speaker Um, so Gina clip two came out of the box with like, here's how you deploy to AWS, Azure, Google cloud.
[Paper Club] DocETL: Agentic Query Rewriting + Eval for Complex Document Processing w Shreya Shankar
- ▶ 15:38 Eugene Yan The search space of chaining together all the different Lego blocks of putting together all the different AWS services is infinite.
- ▶ 53:11 Eugene Cheah Um, Eugene Yen himself, uh, undersells himself, but he writes extensively on LM as a judge and helps teams build these solutions in the world's largest bookstore.
Agents @ Work: Lindy.ai (with live demo!)
- ▶ 22:05 Florent Crivello Like you go to Amazon to search e-commerce, but otherwise you go through Google.
Agents @ Work: Dust.tt — with Stanislas Polu
- ▶ 57:59 Shawn Wang There are a few, you know, there's success stories on both sides, but there's Amazon and Amazon web services, but very few.
- ▶ 57:59 Shawn Wang There are a few, you know, there's success stories on both sides, but there's Amazon and Amazon web services, but very few.
[Paper Club] SWE-Bench [OpenAI Verified/Multimodal] + MLE-Bench with Jesse Hu
- ▶ 21:42 unnamed speaker Because it's not like anyone from Mechanical Turk or anyone from Scale can actually just do this.
Production AI Engineering starts with Evals
- ▶ 7:21 Ankur Goyal Redshift has something called Super, which is fairly similar.
- ▶ 1:28:22 unnamed speaker But the big boys, they all use Amazon for Anthropic, right?
- ▶ 1:28:35 unnamed speaker You wouldn't have, like, all this, like, committed spend on AWS that you were like, okay, fine, I'll do, I'll use Cloud because I already have that.
- ▶ 1:37:37 Ankur Goyal It feels like using Joyent instead of using AWS or something.
- ▶ 1:47:01 Ankur Goyal My conclusion is that this is a very real problem for a very small number of companies, and that is why Datadog, Splunk, Honeycomb, et cetera, et cetera, built their own database technology, which is, in some ways, it's sad because all of…
Building AGI in Real Time (OpenAI Dev Day 2024)
- ▶ 30:03 Shawn Wang What I, what I think this is becoming, by the way, and, uh, I don't, like, uh, it's basically like you're becoming AWS, like the AI cloud.
[Paper Club] Who Validates the Validators? Aligning LLM-Judges with Humans (w/ Eugene Yan)
- ▶ 12:11 Eugene Yan The other one is a, is an e-commerce data set, essentially a hundred Amazon products,
- ▶ 36:40 Eugene Yan Uh, you know, here's the, here's the labeled dataset, or rather, the labeled dataset is all in a DynamoDB, or rather, it's just in a SQLiteDB, and then the FastAPI backend will also have access to that, and we're just optimizing it, and…
Building AGI with OpenAI's Structured Outputs API
- ▶ 6:08 Michelle Pokrass At Clubhouse, I really love DynamoDB. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:17 Shawn Wang Yeah, DynamoDB, I, I, um, when I learned, I worked at AWS briefly, and it's kind of like the memory register for the web. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:05 Shawn Wang Uh, so, you know, it's no coincidence that Seattle is the birthplace of Microsoft and Amazon.
Is finetuning GPT4o worth it?
- ▶ 31:10 Alistair Pullen They are partnered, they are partnered with AWS, and it's going to be in bedrock.
- ▶ 31:10 Alistair Pullen They are partnered, they are partnered with AWS, and it's going to be in bedrock.
The Winds of AI Winter (Q2 Four Wars of the AI Stack Recap)
The 10,000x Yolo Researcher Metagame — with Yi Tay of Reka
State of the Art: Training 70B LLMs on 10,000 H100 clusters
- ▶ 19:49 Josh Albrecht And if we're just using, you know, AWS or some other cloud provider,
- ▶ 33:46 Josh Albrecht Uh, like we have our own sort of local mirror so that we can, you know, like a crappy version of S three that's local, but it's just a pretty simple script, right?
- ▶ 37:30 unnamed speaker I mean, like Kubernetes, like, uh, that point about Kubernetes, I will say as a former AWS employee, like, uh, it, it seems like it would be, uh, ideal for Imbue to at some point make it more, uh, abstracted or agnostic, uh, because…