Ali Ghodsi
Everything Ali personally uses, recommends, or has created — plus things they don't recommend — sourced from their own show and appearances on other podcasts.
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"It's game changer for us. Everybody's on their phones now in the meetings on Genie and they're asking Genie questions. You can see as soon as someone says something complicated, everybody goes to the phone. We just say it — can someone just genie this? Can you just get it from the ontology."
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"I've started to use Neon as my standard database and it was bizarre to me because normally when you enter a large company things slow down. It's actually like the products got materially better. They were obsessed with how are we the best for the agents — database comes up in far less than a second, you can clone a gigantic database in less than a second, and they built this killer feature called branching."
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"We already had a gateway, it's called Unity Gateway, where we were already providing token capacity. You can get OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Grok capacity — any customer can come to us and we'll just provide them that capacity. We started putting in budget constraints in place, giving people warnings, doing great analytics so we could predict exactly where the costs were going."
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"You can get OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Grok capacity — any customer can come to us and we'll just provide them that capacity because we have relationships with those."
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"The way a lot of the agents work today like Claude Code or any of them — Codex or Pi or open code — you can go through the whole slew of them. They have this agentic loop, they can reason, but then they go and check every resource one at a time."
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"You can get OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Grok capacity — any customer can come to us and we'll just provide them that capacity."
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"I think Palantir actually has done a great job of going to organizations and getting a lot of that tacit knowledge written down and getting it into the organizations. We automatically take that and build the graph and then we feed that graph into the agents."
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"You can get OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Grok capacity — any customer can come to us and we'll just provide them that capacity because we have relationships with those and any open source model."
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"The way a lot of the agents work today like Claude Code or any of them — Codex or Pi or open code — you can go through the whole slew of them."
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"Zipline is another one. They were completely automated, all AI driven everything — from the battery optimization to the routes and everything — and they were delivering blood to refugees, started in Africa and then elsewhere in the world. That's a cool one."
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"We saw this with other things with agents, right? Like UV, rip-grep — basically reimplementation of a lot of the tools on Unix making them really really blazing fast and lightweight."
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"The Omnipod — for diabetes patients they can put the Omnipod and it uses AI to really learn your insulin release and your glucose levels and actually exactly release. People used to stick themselves, but this now happens automatically. It's self-learned AI for your body. It's a cool use case."
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"Crisis Text Line actually uses large language models with us to detect if teenagers want to do self-harm, suicide. That's an awesome use case and it actually saves lives."
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