Conor Bronsdon

Host of Chain of Thought, a technical AI podcast. I build open-source agent tooling and write about what works when you put AI agents into production.

Seattle, WA Joined on Jun 23, 2021 https://chainofthought.show

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Conor Bronsdon for LinearB

Dec 23 '21

7 Steps to Reduce Code Smell 🦨

#programming #codereview #tutorial #motivation

5 min read

Conor Bronsdon for LinearB

Dec 21 '21

The Pull Request Paradox: Merge Faster By Promoting Your PR

#devops #programming #productivity #tooling

8 min read

Conor Bronsdon for LinearB

Sep 8 '21

Will the Real Senior Dev Please Stand Up? (2021 Edition)

#discuss #hiring #angular #devops

6 min read

Conor Bronsdon for LinearB

Aug 13 '21

ADHD in the workplace — 3 ways you can help devs

#discuss #devops #culture #productivity

6 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Nov 1

Let your LLM say I don't know instead of guessing

#ai #llm #rag #testing

4 min read

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Conor Bronsdon

Nov 1

Five lessons for getting enterprise AI past the pilot phase

#ai #enterprise #agents #llm

4 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 31

Price a coding call, then pick the model tier

#ai #llm #python #programming

5 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 31

Count transcript tags in a podcast RSS feed

#podcast #rss #python #ai

5 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 30

Four agent metrics that a final accuracy score hides

#ai #agents #testing #llm

6 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 30

What to change when agents write most of the code

#ai #agents #testing #codereview

5 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 29

The Minimum Agent Loop You Can Ship (and When to Skip It)

#ai #agents #llm #python

4 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 29

Measure an AI agent before you call it ready to ship

#ai #llm #agents #testing

4 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 28

Lint your technical drafts for AI writing tells before you publish

#ai #writing #llm #productivity

4 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 28

Ship AI features inside a hard latency budget

#ai #llm #architecture #performance

5 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 27

When a support assistant should hand off to a person

#ai #llm #support #testing

5 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 27

Count tokens before you ship so agent bills do not surprise you

#ai #llm #tokens #agents

4 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 26

Plan inference capacity before an agent feature ships

#ai #llm #agents #infrastructure

5 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 26

Allow-list MCP servers before a company-wide rollout

#security #mcp #agents #ai

5 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 25

Dependency hygiene when exploits land in weeks

#security #opensource #dependencies #ai

6 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 25

Review the boundary, not every line

#ai #agents #testing #architecture

6 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 24

A pre-flight checklist before domain continued pre-training

#ai #llm #finetuning #evaluation

5 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 24

Five questions to ask before you trust an AI feature's eval score

#ai #llm #testing #leadership

5 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 23

Audit your week when agents write the code

#ai #agents #softwareengineering #testing

5 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 23

Design four tables before you write the agent

#ai #agents #database

4 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 22

Map your AI stack by layer before you pick vendors

#ai #llm #agents #architecture

4 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 22

When to fine-tune a small model for one narrow task

#ai #llm #machinelearning #rag

6 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 21

What to alert on when your LLM feature is live

#ai #llm #observability #agents

5 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 21

Choose in-the-loop or on-the-loop per action

#ai #agents #security #governance

6 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 20

Architecture choices that change memory, latency, and context

#ai #llm #architecture

5 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 20

Re-reading Nov 2024 GenAI predictions as a builder playbook

#ai #llm #evaluation #agents

4 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 19

Copy or federate? A per-source table for agent data access

#ai #agents #rag #enterprise

5 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 19

Screen an agent project for agent washing

#ai #agents #llm

6 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 18

Validate bounding boxes from a general vision model

#ai #llm #machinelearning #testing

6 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 18

Five concepts to learn before you build with LLMs

#ai #llm #python #beginners

6 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 17

Write your agent as functions first, add a framework later

#ai #agents #llm #python

5 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 17

Pick the LLM eval metric before you build the dashboard

#ai #llm #evaluation #metrics

4 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 16

Check each agent action after you grant the tool

#ai #agents #security #llm

5 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 16

When to pay for a reasoning model on a request

#ai #llm #testing

5 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 15

Draft the file your agent loads at every session start

#ai #agents #llm #markdown

5 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 15

Design discovery, identity, and messages before adding agents

#ai #agents #protocols #architecture

6 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 14

Run GPU kernel tuning as an overnight search loop

#ai #gpu #performance #python

6 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 14

Ship the dependency fix before the exploit window closes

#security #devops #opensource #python

7 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 13

Log what your tools put in the context window before blaming the model

#ai #agents #llm #python

4 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 13

Test document extraction before an agent acts on it

#ai #agents #testing #python

4 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 13

Open weights in production: five builder takeaways from Chain of Thought

#ai #llm #opensource #production

5 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 8

When your LLM plan moves a robot, clamp every command first

#ai #llm #agents #testing

5 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 7

Five agent episodes, and the build decision to take from each

#ai #agents #llm #engineering

4 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 7

How to write tool descriptions agents won't misread

#ai #agents #mcp #architecture

7 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 6

Shipping practices from five AI engineering episodes

#ai #agents #testing #llm

5 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 6

Checks to run before a small model serves traffic

#ai #llm #mlops #deployment

6 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 5

Five podcast lessons on AI defensibility and go-to-market

#ai #startup #agents #llm

4 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 5

Tools before training for a domain legal agent

#ai #llm #agents #architecture

5 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 4

Threat-model the model endpoint your app exposes to the internet

#ai #security #machinelearning #llm

5 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 4

How to audit every credential your AI agent process can reach

#ai #agents #security #devops

5 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 3

Shrink a high-volume agent step after the strong model

#ai #llm #agents #machinelearning

6 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 3

Scope chat agents with citations and multi-pass search

#ai #agents #rag #programming

5 min read

Conor Bronsdon

Oct 1

Keep signing keys out of your AI agent's reach

#ai #security #llm #programming

5 min read

Conor Bronsdon for LinearB

Aug 4 '23

Labs: The Evolution of Continuous Merge

#programming #devops #productivity #podcast

2 min read

Conor Bronsdon for LinearB

Jul 30 '23

6 Proven Strategies For Being A Great Platform Engineer

#devops #career #productivity #softwaredevelopment

5 min read

Conor Bronsdon for LinearB

Jul 27 '23

AI Tooling For Your Dev Team: To Adopt or Not to Adopt?

#ai #programming #machinelearning #podcast

2 min read

Conor Bronsdon for LinearB

Jul 21 '23

Have Engineering Leaders Become Too Hands-off?

#devops #productivity #management #podcast

2 min read

Conor Bronsdon for LinearB

Jul 14 '23

Reimagining DORA Metrics & Leveraging Feature Flags with Split

#programming #devops #productivity #podcast

2 min read

Conor Bronsdon for LinearB

Jul 6 '23

The Art of Landing a DevRel Role with daily.dev

#devops #career #community #podcast

2 min read

Conor Bronsdon for LinearB

Jun 30 '23

LB Labs: Inside the Top 10% of Engineering Orgs

2 min read