Agents, Verifiability and First Principles Thinking | Vishnu Patankar (CTO, EigenCloud)
In this episode, Vishnu Patankar (CTO, EigenCloud) joins us for a wide-ranging conversation on AI, infrastructure, and the economy — from chips and compilers to agent harnesses, privacy/security, evals, deterministic inference, RL environments, open source, and where the frontier is headed. -------------------- Vishnu Patankar [Guest]: https://x.com/vishnu_patankar Himanshu [Host at GroundZero]: https://x.com/himanshustwts GroundZero: https://groundzeroai.in EigenCloud: https://eigencloud.xyz --------------------- SPONSOR: HydraDB (https://hydradb.com) provides the developer tools and infrastructure to build, maintain, and scale an agent’s context and memory layer. This enables agents to persist context, interactions, and outcomes across sessions - making AI stateful. To sponsor future episodes, visit https://www.groundzeroai.in/partner -------------------- TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 - Intel Monopoly, Chips and Compilers 00:15:10 - OpenClaw, Guardrails and Harness 00:25:45 - First Principles of Writing Code 00:32:18 - Privacy and Security while running AI Systems 00:39:10 - Evals, Benchmarks and Taste 00:44:15 - Deterministic over Non-Deterministic Inference, Floating Point Maths 01:03:45 - Self-Improving Agents, RL Envs and Rollouts 01:15:10 - AGI, ASI and Continual Learning 01:20:50 - Open Source, Chinese Frontier 01:26:30 - K-Shaped Economy, Curiosity is the Frontier
