AI Agents at Work: Scaffold Required

About this episode

The episode discusses the concept of scaffolding in AI, featuring insights from Neil McKechnie on managing multiple language models.

We review four clips from the Dwarkesh Patel Podcast with Satya Nadella, Microsoft's CEO. I highly recommend Dwarkesh’s show—technical & nerdy, but excellent. Satya talks about scaffolding—the software wrapped around AI models to make them actually work. So we speak with someone building that scaffolding: Neil McKechnie runs two AI-first startups as a CTO. He discusses how he orchestrates up to twelve different language models—GPT-5, Claude, Gemini, Llama, Mistral, Cohere, Perplexit...

People in this episode

Host: Tony Wan

Guest: Neil McKechnie

Topics covered

• AI agents
• scaffolding
• language models
• technology
• startups

Keywords

• AI
• scaffolding
• language models
• Microsoft
• startups

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Microsoft

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