How AI Is Built

About How AI Is Built

Real engineers. Real deployments. Zero hype. We interview the top engineers who actually put AI in production. Learn what the best engineers have figured out through years of experience. Hosted by Nicolay Gerold, CEO of Aisbach and CTO at Proxdeal and Multiply Content.

Publisher

Nicolay Gerold

Category

technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

5 Apr 2024

Latest episode

11 Sept 2025

Latest episodes

83 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   11 Sept 2025

   Building Solo: How One Engineer Uses AI Agents to Ship Production Code

   Host Nicolay Gerold interviews Kieran Klaassen about using AI agents to ship production code by treating them as junior developers and extracting reusable systems.

2. 

   13 Aug 2025

   Embedding Intelligence: AI's Move to the Edge

   Host Nicolay interviews Pete Warden, CEO of Useful Sensors, about embedding intelligence offline for direct audio-to-device action, bypassing text limitations for real-world AI applications.

3. 

   29 Jul 2025

   Maxime Labonne on Model Merging, AI Trends, and Beyond

   Host Nicolay Gerold interviews researcher Maxime Labonne about model merging, revealing how averaging AI model weights surprisingly boosts performance and discussing AI trends like synthetic data.

Who has been a guest on How AI Is Built

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Kieran Klaassen
• Pete Warden
• Maxime Labonne
• Ben Holmes
• Charles Irlbeck

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

7 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

21 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 64 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

97

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

77

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