OM DENNE EPISODE
In this episode, Vishnu Patankar (CTO, EigenCloud) joins us for a wide-ranging conversation on AI, infrastructure, and the economy — from chips and compilers to agent harnesses, privacy/security, evals, deterministic inference, RL environments, open source, and where the frontier is headed.
TIMESTAMPS
00:00:00 - Intel Monopoly, Chips & Compilers
00:15:10 - OpenClaw, Guardrails & Harnesses
00:25:45 - First Principles of Writing Code
00:32:18 - Privacy & Security While Running AI Systems
00:39:10 - Evals, Benchmarks & Taste
00:44:15 - Deterministic vs Non-Deterministic Inference & Floating Point Math
01:03:45 - Self-Improving Agents, RL Environments & Rollouts
01:15:10 - AGI, ASI & Continual Learning
01:20:50 - Open Source & The Chinese Frontier
01:26:30 - The K-Shaped Economy & Why Curiosity Is the Frontier