Vanishing Gradients
Hosted by Hugo and Hugo Bowne and Hugo Stefan · Hugo Bowne-Anderson
4.9from 36 ratings
- 84
- Episodes
- 56
- Transcribed
- 36
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
- 126K
- YouTube views
About Vanishing Gradients
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 (https://hugobowne.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast)
- Publisher
- Hugo Bowne-Anderson
- Category
- science · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 16 Feb 2022
- Latest episode
- 15 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
56 of 84 episodes have a transcript.
15 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
How to Build a Coding Agent with Nico (Amp Code)
4 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Rise of the AI Scientist
3 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
If Developers Build on Chinese Open-Weight Models, Who Leads AI?
Inside a recent episode
How to Build a Coding Agent with Nico (Amp Code)
Published 15 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And through that, you basically can reduce the amount of information you have to put in the root one. And different coding agents handle that differently. So for us, for example, if you're doing reads or edits in a directory, we automatically pull in the agent.md file and send it to the model as well. So the agent doesn't actually have to do the work because otherwise I would have to tell the agent, hey, in every single directory you are, read the agent.md file first for guidance before you actually do any edits. So I'm basically wasting one to two tool calls because it has to actually figure out, is there an agent.md file in this sub-repo and then actually read it before it actually can do work on its own. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on Vanishing Gradients
Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Nicolay Gerold
- Hamel Husain
- Sebastian Raschka
- William Horton
- Nico
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 126,218
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 14 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 22 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 80 / 100
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- Quality
- 92
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 85
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Who hosts Vanishing Gradients?
Hugo and Hugo Bowne and Hugo Stefan host the show. Published by Hugo Bowne-Anderson.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes weekly, based on its RSS feed.
Does Vanishing Gradients take guests?
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