Building With AI

Empowering developers to build with AI | Logan Kilpatrick (Developer Relations Lead at OpenAI)

Episode Notes

In this episode of Building With AI, host Haroon Choudery is joined by Logan Kilpatrick, who leads developer relations at OpenAI. After a year at the frontier of AI development, Logan digs into an important question: How do you empower developers to build with GenAI?

During the conversation, they discuss:

• Crafting robust and reliable AI systems,
• The trade-off between creativity and control,
• The role of OpenAI in the developer ecosystem,
• Opportunities & risks for AI developers,
• Best practices for AI product builders,
• And much more!

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[00:00] Up next: Logan from OpenAI

[00:28] Episode introduction

[01:04] Autoblocks: AI Optimization Platform

[01:56] Logan’s Introduction

[03:26] Challenges in AI development

[06:50] Trade-off between control and creativity

[09:51] Improving developer experience with OpenAI

[11:51] OpenAI’s vision for the future

[12:34] Opportunities and risks for AI developers

[15:01] Industry best practices for developers and builders

[16:84] Future of retrieval

[18:54] Evolution of the data ecosystem

[20:50] First principles approach to AI products

[23:12] Startups vs. incumbents

[26:01] What future models have in store

[29:54] Role of open-source models

[33:45] Advice for AI builders

[35:19] Reflections on recent events at OpenAI

[36:51] Logan’s hottest take on AI

[38:14] Predictions on the future of AGI

[39:52] Outro

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Building with AI is a weekly podcast featuring conversations with top AI product builders and leaders. Through thoughtful dialogue, host Haroon Choudery (CEO of Autoblocks) uncovers tactical insights that help listeners build & scale world-class AI products.

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