Taylor Pechacek (Head of Product, API Collaboration Core @getpostman) talks about APIs, AI, and MCP (Model Context Protocol). We cover what is top of mind for developers and what has shifted in the industry recently.

SHOW: 917

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SHOW NOTES:

• Postman - The World’s Leading API Platform
• OpenAPI Specification
• MCP - Model Context Protocol (Anthropic)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a bit about your background, and what you focus on these days at Postman? Tell us a little bit about Postman, for our audience that might not be familiar. 

Topic 2 - Let’s begin with some broader concepts - in today’s world, where does a developer interact with software vs. an API - what are the most important things they have to think about?

Topic 3 - What are the standards that are most important for developers these days? Where does OpenAPI Spec fit into that space?

Topic 4 - APIs are now so pervasive. What are the best practices for API usage patterns and governance? What are some of the things that Postman is doing to improve this for developers and companies?

Topic 5 - Let’s talk a little bit about how you’re seeing AI change how developers work, and if/how AI is impacting APIs.

Topic 6 - Help us understand how you expect to see APIs interacting with AI Agents. What will the bigger picture look like for these interactions, and how will they be different than current API interactions?

Topic 7 - Can we finish by talking about MCP (Model Context Protocol) a little bit? This is a new standard that is being adopted by many companies. 

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Instead of focusing on augmenting existing teams and processes with AI, are we beginning to see more companies looking to replace teams with AI? Will economic pressure increase this likelihood? 

SHOW: 916

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SHOW NOTES:

• CEOs choose more AI, fewer jobs
• OpenAI plots charging $20,000 per month for PhD-level Agents
• Why AI isn’t giving Salesforce a boost
• The one person $Billion dollar company

HUMAN-AUGMENTED vs HUMAN-REPLACEMENT IS A COMPLEX AI STRATEGY

• Most AI projects today as either augmenting or replacing humans
• Technology has augmented, shifted or replaced human tasks for a while, this isn’t anything new
• Management/owners have tried to replace workers with technology for a long time
• Pricing will tell you something about the goal of the technology (e.g. seat vs. task)
• Now we’re starting to see the psychology of aligning AI to business goals - augmenting, shifting or replacing
• The hyperbole of AI funding is to convey direct lines to AI success (whatever success is - AGI, No Coders, No Operations, No Entry-Level, etc..)
• “How do we replace the employees with AI?”
• The path to get there isn’t well defined. The politics to get there isn’t defined by technology. 
• Will the current economic downturn accelerate this line of questioning / strategy? 
• The Bed Bath and Beyond 20% coupon test. 
• “The $billion dollar company with one employee.”

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Evan Powell (@epowell101, CEO at DeepTempo) talks about the intersection of CyberSecurity, Deep Learning and new AI techniques to improve operational security. 

SHOW: 915

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• The Promise of CyberSecurity Foundation Models
• Evan on The Cloudcast #165

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show, Evan. It’s hard to believe it’s been over ten years since we last spoke in your StackStorm days. Give everyone a quick introduction.

Topic 2 - Today's topic is the intersection of Deep Learning and CyberSecurity. Let’s start at a high level. As someone who has founded several companies, what’s interesting enough in this space for you to jump in?

Topic 3 - I talk to many customers about AI and use cases. If they don’t have a leading use case, I often ask where they have a lot of data, and they want insights data. The needle in the haystack scenario. It could be text, unstructured data, log files, data lakes, just about anything. Is this scenario correct when it comes to CyberSecurity? What are the leading use cases?

Topic 4 - I’ve been reading and hearing how AI has been a boon for hackers; what are your thoughts on the ever-lasting cat-and-mouse game in the security space and how it has evolved with AI?

Topic 5 - Let’s dig into the tech; at DeepTempo’s core, you use Deep Learning and specific foundational models. You wrote a great blog recently on Cybersecurity models. When folks hear the term foundational or frontier model, they think of LLMs and GenAI. How is this different?

Topic 6 - Is this a SaaS model? On-prem? Where does the tech sit and why?

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Are companies starting to get concerned that AI isn’t meeting expectations? Concern is a part of any new technology adoption curve, but let’s explore some areas where expectations might not be meeting results. 

SHOW: 914

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• Why AI isn’t meeting expectations (The Artificial Intelligence Enterprise)

IS THREE YEARS ENOUGH TIME FOR ANY TECHNOLOGY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD?

• Costs are still high, and positive ROI is still evolving
• The technology stack and standards are still evolving
• Enterprise expectations are being confused with consumer expectations
• AI predictions and timelines are overly aggressive
• How is anymore measuring AI success? 
• The AI future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed
• “AI First” strategies are following “Cloud First” strategies - unevenly and distributed
• Most people don’t like to talk about the augment vs. replace issue

Miscellaneous stuff:

• ChatGPT is the fasting growing tech ever 
• AGI will be here at any moment
• For the first 18+ months, it was only an OpenAI + NVIDIA market
• All software development will be done by AI
• There will be $1B companies with 1 person
• GenAI, Frontier Models, Open Source Models, Agents, etc.
• Deep Seek, MCP, etc. 

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Dan Lee, (@_dan_lee_, CEO Nooks.ai, @JoinNooks) talks about agentic AI vs. AI assistants, their differences, and we explore ROI in this space vs. GenAI and common paths to adoption.

SHOW: 913

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• Nooks Founders on Forbes 30 under 30 for AI

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, Dan. Give everyone a quick introduction.

Topic 2 - Our topic today is AI Agents vs. Assistants. Let’s start there. Many out there are hearing the terms and will often think an AI Agent is equal to an AI Assistant. What’s the difference?

Topic 3 - One of the big problems I’ve seen with AI adoption vs. hype is the ROI. GenAI hit the scene and brought AI into the mainstream, but the world is quickly moving on to Agentic AI. I’ve mainly seen this play out because the ROI on “chatbots” just isn’t there most of the time and also everyone is still scared for data leaks/privacy and hallucinations.

Topic 4 - We’ll get into Nooks.ai in a bit but before we do, I wanted to point out that your company started prior to the big breakout of GenAI. How did you see the market back then and has LLM’s and transformer models in general changed your approach to AI Assistants?

Topic 5 - When taking customers through the adoption process for AI Assistants, what are the typical steps? How do you go about getting consensus and buy-in from the various orgs in the company? Are there common hurdles folks need to consider?

Topic 6 - With Nooks, you’ve decided to conquer the domain of sales and sales prospecting. What was your thoughts here in deciding where and how to remove friction from sales? Is this decision and thought process transferable to other areas? Any universal considerations?

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How is it possible for the 900lb gorilla of an industry to stumble or fall from it's heights? Let's explore how emerging trends can knock industry leaders off the top of the mountain. 

SHOW: 912

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IT’S DIFFICULT TO STAY THE BIGGEST COMPANY FOREVER 

• Merchant Silicon happened for Networking - Will it happen for AI?
• Cloud Providers happened - Will the opposite happen for AI? 
• What unknown or unexpected events will happen over the next 3-5 years?
• Data Center Power Requirements?
• Geopolitical Activities?

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Aaron Delp, Brian Gracely and Brandon Whichard discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from March 2025 including recent M&A activity.

SHOW: 911

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• Link to March 2025 news and articles

SEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:

• Recent M&A
• Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
• The AI Innovation Continues 

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What happens when you consider moving from a technical role to a lesser technical role? What are the trade-offs? What new skills do you need to evolve?

SHOW: 910

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• Software Defined Interviews - Episode with Brian Gracely

WHAT HAPPENS DURING AND AFTER AN ACQUISITION? 

• Moving from an IC to Leadership role is a complex choice
• Moving from a technical to a less technical role is a difficult choice
• What happens if you’re not an expert in the room?
• What happens when you don’t have all the answers?
• How do you build your network to keep you informed?
• The economics of technology are more complicated than you think 

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With Kubecon coming up next week, we speak to Lukas Gentele (@LukasGentele, Co-Founder/ CEO at Loft Labs (@loft_sh)), about virtualizing Kubernetes 

SHOW: 909

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• Loft Labs vCluster Cloud

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, Lukas. Give everyone a quick introduction.

Topic 2 - Our topic today is virtualizing Kubernetes. Let’s get the most obvious question out of the way… Why virtualize k8s? Isn’t this another abstraction layer to manage and more complexity in the stack?

Topic 3 - What are the most common use cases? Combining test/dev and production? 

Topic 4 - How does this impact other parts of the stack? I think about Istio, Rancher, etc. Does the complexity increase or decrease?

Topic 4a - How is the control plane handled vs. the data plane?

Topic 5 - With vm virtualization, a trend developed as the technology matured. In the beginning, consolidation was good, and as the technology supported greater and greater density, a tipping point was reached where fault domains were needed. Where is the virtualization of K8s on this scale?

Topic 6 - A few months ago at KubeCon in Salt Lake City, you announced vCluster Cloud. Are there any hints for our listeners for KubeCon EU?

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We’re starting to see some hints that M&A activities might start heating up in the tech sector again. So what should you expect if a company gets acquired? What are some common scenarios and activities to be aware of?

SHOW: 908

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WHAT HAPPENS DURING AND AFTER AN ACQUISITION? 

• Who is acquiring and who is being acquired? Culture, Company Size, GTM approach, etc?
• Why are they being acquired? New market, adjacent market, integration (1+1=3)
• Front-end, back-end, integration, acquhire acquisition? 
• What are the benefits of the acquisition? New technology, key talent, new GTM approach
• Did the acquirer try to build it themselves first? Leftover perspective? Marketing understanding?
• Which group within the acquirer did the acquisition? Good alignment?
• Independence or Integration? What is the initial focus? 
• What is the learning curve for the new company? Culture, tools, skeletons in closets
• Retention of key people? Expectations of key people? How long do the leaders stay?

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