Sam Partee

Rahul Parundekar, Founder of AI Hero, Inc., and Sam Partee, CTO of Arcade AI, dive into the complexities of AI agents and tools. They tackle the significance of digital permissions and the challenges of agent-to-agent interactions. The duo unveils the intricacies of authentication processes, emphasizing OAuth's role in security. They also discuss the evolution of agent-based programming and AI tools, highlighting the need for improved evaluation methods. With humor, they address the frustrations of automated email responses while celebrating AI's potential to transform workflows.

Sam Partee, co-founder of Arcade, discusses the rise of AI agents that can manage your inbox, calendar, and social media with your consent. He explains how Arcade empowers these agents, making workflows seamless and secure. Sam shares insights into his personal automation strategies, including email triage and iMessage replies. He also highlights the productivity boost for engineers and the importance of tools like Cursor for all team members. With a focus on transitioning to AI-native companies, this conversation is a must for anyone curious about the future of work.

Sam Partee, principal engineer at Redis, discusses Redis' vector database offering, different approaches to embeddings, enhancing language models with search components, and the use of hybrid search in Redis. They also explore the potential applications of retrieval augmented generation (RAG) technology and the challenges of running large language models on-prem.