Reassessing the LLM Landscape & Summoning Ghosts
From The Real Python Podcast by Real Python
April 17, 2026 · 1h 15m · Episode 291
About this episode
Jodie Burchell discusses the current techniques and shifts in the AI coding landscape.
What are the current techniques being employed to improve the performance of LLM-based systems? How is the industry shifting from post-training towards context engineering and multi-agent orchestration? This week on the show, Jodie Burchell, data scientist and Python Advocacy Team Lead at JetBrains, returns to discuss the current AI coding landscape.
People in this episode
Guest: Jodie Burchell
Topics covered
- LLM-based systems
- context engineering
- multi-agent orchestration
- AI coding landscape
- data science
Keywords
- LLM
- context engineering
- multi-agent orchestration
- AI
- data science
- JetBrains
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Organizations: JetBrains
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