alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders

#124 - The Path to AGI: Inside poolside’s AI Model Factory for Code with Eiso Kant


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Building Human-Level AI for Code: Model Factories, RL at Scale, and Distributed Teams

Technical Deep Dives:

  • Poolside’s model factory: end-to-end automation from raw data to production models
  • Scaling RL from code execution: 800,000+ containerized repos, millions of agent tasks
  • Immutable versioning with Apache Iceberg for full traceability
  • Distributed team structure: 120+ engineers across US/EU, monthly in-person sprints
  • Hardware orchestration: 10,000+ H200s, hot swap failover, dynamic allocation
  • Leadership: dividing responsibilities, low-ego culture, and the MIT principle
  • Future of software: managing agent workforces, context window strategies, continual learning
  • "Our model factory runs thousands of experiments before a single production model is trained. It’s an empirical science—every component, from data ingestion to evals, is versioned and traceable." – Eiso Kant

    Chapters:

    [00:04:28] Poolside’s unique approach to foundation models
    [00:13:02] Scaling hardware: 10,000+ H200s and orchestration
    [00:17:42] RL, agents, and the future of developer tools
    [00:24:56] Immutable versioning and evaluation frameworks
    [00:36:04] Distributed team structure and monthly sprints
    [00:40:26] Leadership, decision-making, and low-ego culture
    [00:45:54] Lessons for CTOs: breaking process dogma, preparing for agent-driven orgs
    [00:50:54] The next 3 years: AGI, agent workforces, and the end of manual coding
    [00:53:44] Context window, continual learning, and model memory
    [00:56:20] Everything collapses into the model: product, research, and daily life
    [00:59:46] Advice to a younger self: scale compute, trust RL+LM, and the four-minute mile

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