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AI After Dark

AI After Dark

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 AI After Dark is a podcast hosted by Alex Gras, venture capitalist at Mercury, focused on how real companies are built once the hype fades and the hard decisions begin. Through candid conversations with founders, CTOs, and operators, the show cuts through buzzwords to talk about people, systems, risk, and the trade-offs that actually matter. Alex brings a background as an operator, founder, and revenue leader, with a belief that technology matters, but people come first. This podcast is for builders who care less about trends and more about what lasts.2025 Digital Wildcatters, Inc Economie
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  • Ex-JPM Trader: Why Expertise Is No Longer The Edge

    Ex-JPM Trader: Why Expertise Is No Longer The Edge
    May 12 2026

    Seven years trading at JP Morgan, a Fulbright scholarship to the US, and one circled line in a careers book at Warwick. Anekha Sokhal, Founder and Machine Learning Engineer at Moshi, walks through how she's building an AI-native analyst platform for energy and macro traders. We get into screen real estate wars on trading desks, why people lie about their workflows, building Toyotas instead of Ferraris, and what it actually takes to leave a dream job to chase a harder one.

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    00:00 - Screen real estate and the death of the application
    04:00 - Building Moshi after eight years of trading
    08:00 - Tribal knowledge, generational gaps, and AI FOMO
    12:30 - A statistical edge in a zero-sum industry
    17:30 - Toyotas vs Ferraris and learning to fail fast
    23:30 - Team culture at startup speed
    27:00 - Solo founding and always selling
    33:30 - From a careers book at Warwick to JP Morgan
    37:00 - Leaving the dream job for a Fulbright to Rice
    43:30 - Prioritization and listening without taking it personally
    49:30 - The hard moments and finding conviction
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    57 min
  • How AI Turned a Designer Into a CTO

    How AI Turned a Designer Into a CTO
    Apr 29 2026

    Going from designer to CTO sounds like an impossible career pivot, but Kyle Ledbetter, Co-Founder and CTO of Dreambase, walks through how AI handed him the permission slip he didn't know he needed. We get into building a Dream Team of data agents on top of Supabase, why dashboards are just the Trojan horse, agent orchestration, the case for CLI as the default interface, and the slightly terrifying moment his wife's AI generated Instagram feed knew her better than he did.

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    00:00 From designer to CTO
    04:30 The co-founder unlock and imposter syndrome
    07:30 Rethinking team design with AI
    10:00 Mini CEOs and agents as employees
    12:00 The Dream Team of data agents
    15:00 Why Dream Base sits on Supabase
    18:30 Why can't Claude just build this
    21:00 Specialization beats generalists
    25:00 MCP apps and email as UI
    30:30 Critical thinking for the next generation
    37:30 What keeps Kyle up at night
    42:00 Faster horse vs building a car
    45:00 Legacy industries adopting AI
    48:00 What comes after dashboards
    50:30 The rise of the CLI
    54:00 When the algorithm knows you better than your spouse
    58:00 What Dream Base really is
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    1 h et 1 min
  • Why This AI Startup Doesn't Use AI For Math

    Why This AI Startup Doesn't Use AI For Math
    Apr 21 2026

    Hunter Honnessy, CTO and Co-Founder at Unlimited.ai, gets into what defensibility actually looks like when anyone can vibe code a SaaS over a weekend. Conversation runs through building moats with data plus intelligence layers, why finance software doesn't have to suck, forward deployed engineering, where vibe coding leaves junior devs, a grounded take on AI fear mongering, and why 2026 is the year agentic workflows stop being primitive.

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    Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward.
    Apply today at collide.io


    Click here to view the episode transcript.

    0:00:00 Defensibility in an AI-native world
    0:04:00 User delight and the wow factor as a moat
    0:07:00 Who Unlimited serves and finance's legacy problem
    0:11:00 Why business-minded CTOs ship faster
    0:15:00 Monthly releases and cutting prototypes to hours
    0:21:00 Forward deployed engineering and what keeps Hunter up at night
    0:26:00 Vibe coding and the future of junior engineers
    0:33:00 Painkillers vs vitamins and how Unlimited came together
    0:39:00 Hiring cracked engineers and the Jim Simons lesson
    0:45:00 AI as augmentation, not replacement
    0:46:30 2026 as the year of agentic workflows
    0:52:45 What's next for Hunter and Unlimited
    0:57:00 AI fear mongering vs the good news nobody reports

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