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AI After Dark

AI After Dark

Di: Alex Gras
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 AI After Dark is a podcast hosted by Alex Gras, venture capitalist at Mercury, focused on how real companies are built once the hype fades and the hard decisions begin. Through candid conversations with founders, CTOs, and operators, the show cuts through buzzwords to talk about people, systems, risk, and the trade-offs that actually matter. Alex brings a background as an operator, founder, and revenue leader, with a belief that technology matters, but people come first. This podcast is for builders who care less about trends and more about what lasts.2025 Digital Wildcatters, Inc Economia
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  • Hunter Honnessy from Unlimited.ai

    Hunter Honnessy from Unlimited.ai
    Apr 21 2026

    Hunter Honnessy, CTO and Co-Founder at Unlimited.ai, gets into what defensibility actually looks like when anyone can vibe code a SaaS over a weekend. Conversation runs through building moats with data plus intelligence layers, why finance software doesn't have to suck, forward deployed engineering, where vibe coding leaves junior devs, a grounded take on AI fear mongering, and why 2026 is the year agentic workflows stop being primitive.

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    0:00:00 Defensibility in an AI-native world
    0:04:00 User delight and the wow factor as a moat
    0:07:00 Who Unlimited serves and finance's legacy problem
    0:11:00 Why business-minded CTOs ship faster
    0:15:00 Monthly releases and cutting prototypes to hours
    0:21:00 Forward deployed engineering and what keeps Hunter up at night
    0:26:00 Vibe coding and the future of junior engineers
    0:33:00 Painkillers vs vitamins and how Unlimited came together
    0:39:00 Hiring cracked engineers and the Jim Simons lesson
    0:45:00 AI as augmentation, not replacement
    0:46:30 2026 as the year of agentic workflows
    0:52:45 What's next for Hunter and Unlimited
    0:57:00 AI fear mongering vs the good news nobody reports

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  • Gustavo Herrera from Knowme Global

    Gustavo Herrera from Knowme Global
    Apr 7 2026

    Alex Gras sits down with Gustavo Herrera, Founder and CTO of Knowme Global, to talk through why recruiting still sucks and how AI might actually fix it by doing the one thing everyone avoids, sitting down and talking to people for two hours. Gustavo breaks down why LLMs are just glorified averaging, how he picked Llama Index over LangChain by keeping it simple, and why the industry's obsession with automation is backwards when the hardest part is capturing who someone actually is. They dig into prompt versus context engineering, why philosophy matters more than people think, and how AI is forcing everyone back to the most human things we do.

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    0:00 - Why Gustavo went back to school to learn AI for recruiting
    4:30 - Choosing tech stacks and avoiding bleeding edge tools
    9:15 - How Knowme ingests long-format interviews to build candidate profiles
    14:45 - Prompt engineering versus context engineering
    19:00 - Why LLMs will never be truly intelligent
    24:20 - Philosophy's role in shaping AI and society
    30:45 - How employers don't actually know what they want
    36:15 - Speeding up the 42-day hiring process with AI interviews
    42:00 - Why Knowme does the unscalable thing nobody wants to do
    47:30 - Preventing AI from embellishing candidate answers
    54:10 - Training interviewers to strike the right conversational tone
    58:45 - When to use deterministic solutions versus agentic AI
    1:01:40 - AI bringing us back to our humanity

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  • Bowden Kelly from Nutiliti

    Bowden Kelly from Nutiliti
    Mar 24 2026

    Bowden Kelly from Nutiliti joins Alex on AI After Dark to explain why being a fast follower beats bleeding-edge adoption, particularly when your customers just want accurate utility bills paid on time and don't care about your tech stack. He breaks down why AI native companies often confuse magic demos with production reality, why replacing his entire engineering team with agents would be insane, and how the paradigm shift isn't about chat interfaces but building artifacts that make high school interns into experienced employees. The conversation reveals why Nutiliti spent years building PDF parsers only to discover LLMs weren't good enough yet, his controversial take that the agentic AI wave is overhyped, and how the hiring equation is flipping from one PM managing ten engineers to five PMs with two engineers because code execution is getting commoditized while business reasoning stays expensive.

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    00:00 Fast follower versus bleeding edge adoption philosophy
    07:38 Paradigm shifts from blockchain to mobile to AI
    13:29 Tech debt concerns and why Google engineer stories mislead
    21:10 Cloud Code improvements and managing context windows
    28:04 MCP servers and the actual problem of data access
    34:47 Why non-technical users aren't ready for AI interfaces
    39:07 Building artifacts versus executing tasks as organizational design
    46:17 High school intern analogy for training agentic AI
    51:18 Controversial take on AI being overhyped despite being valuable
    55:02 Hiring shift from programmers to business-minded builders
    01;06;05 Fundraising strategy for non-unicorn companies
    01;08;05 Why companies force AI into products for the story

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