Empowering developers to build with AI | Logan Kilpatrick (Developer Relations Lead at OpenAI)

In this episode of Building With AI, host Haroon Choudery is joined by Logan Kilpatrick, who leads developer relations at OpenAI. After a year at the frontier of AI development, Logan digs into an important question: How do you empower developers to build with GenAI?

During the conversation, they discuss:

• Crafting robust and reliable AI systems,
• The trade-off between creativity and control,
• The role of OpenAI in the developer ecosystem,
• Opportunities & risks for AI developers,
• Best practices for AI product builders,
• And much more!

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[00:00] Up next: Logan from OpenAI

[00:28] Episode introduction

[01:04] Autoblocks: AI Optimization Platform

[01:56] Logan’s Introduction

[03:26] Challenges in AI development

[06:50] Trade-off between control and creativity

[09:51] Improving developer experience with OpenAI

[11:51] OpenAI’s vision for the future

[12:34] Opportunities and risks for AI developers

[15:01] Industry best practices for developers and builders

[16:84] Future of retrieval

[18:54] Evolution of the data ecosystem

[20:50] First principles approach to AI products

[23:12] Startups vs. incumbents

[26:01] What future models have in store

[29:54] Role of open-source models

[33:45] Advice for AI builders

[35:19] Reflections on recent events at OpenAI

[36:51] Logan’s hottest take on AI

[38:14] Predictions on the future of AGI

[39:52] Outro

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Building with AI is a weekly podcast featuring conversations with top AI product builders and leaders. Through thoughtful dialogue, host Haroon Choudery (CEO of Autoblocks) uncovers tactical insights that help listeners build & scale world-class AI products.

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