Heroes Behind AI
Deep conversations with the founders and experts building AI. What actually works, and what breaks.
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Angelina Yang
Host of Heroes Behind AI on YouTube. Angelina interviews the technical founders and domain experts building AI — extracting the hard-won lessons behind the companies shaping the future of AI. AI/ML researcher, published author on RAG and machine learning, AI patent holder, and Anthropic Developer Contest winner. Her questions are basic on purpose. The ones a first-time builder or entrepreneur would want to ask but might feel too embarrassed to. That's the point.
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How Customer Data Becomes the Context Window for AI Marketing Models
Kashish Gupta (Co-CEO, Hightouch) explains how a semantic layer turns a data warehouse into a context layer for LLMs — enabling accurate SQL generation and reducing hallucination.
Humans Are AGI for Minimum Wage — Why the AI Doom Loop Won't Happen
Mike Taylor lays out the permanent underclass theory, then dismantles it with economics. His argument for why human intelligence is still the galaxy's best deal.
Are Your Coding Skills Deteriorating Because of AI?
Deepak Bapat (CTO, Tabs) shares how AI coding tools eroded his own skills and why he now invests in junior engineers who write code themselves — plus why code review replaced coding exercises in interviews.
What Career Skills Actually Matter When AI Can Do Everything?
John Berryman, who left GitHub after building Copilot to become an AI consultant, shares the career framework he uses and teaches his own kids: abstract thinking plus entrepreneurship beats specialization.
The Biggest Skill in AI Isn't Coding — It's Management
Mike Taylor ran a 50-person agency before building AI products. He argues the skills that matter most with AI agents are the same ones that worked on human teams.
Should You Hire an AI Agent Over a Junior Developer?
John Berryman, early GitHub Copilot engineer and O'Reilly author, explains why he would choose a pure AI agent over a junior developer assisted by AI — and what that means for how we train the next generation of engineers.