041: An Inspiring Journey from a Totally Different Background to Data Science

041: An Inspiring Journey from a Totally Diff...

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971: 90% of The World’s Data is Private; Lin Qiao’s Fireworks AI is Unlocking It

Lin Qiao, CEO of Fireworks AI, talks to Jon Krohn about how she builds effective models quickly, why coding agents can perform at the level of a junior engineer, and what she attributes to the success of Fireworks AI: True to its name, the company exploded into the AI industry wi ...  Show more

970: The “100x Engineer”: How to Be One, But Should You?

Working with code-gen models and Claude Code: In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn addresses how AI superstars like Andrej Karpathy are using AI agents in their coding work, the outlook for code-gen in 2026, and how you can get started. Hear about Karpathy’s work as well as the ...  Show more

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