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Super Prompt: Generative AI
AI Agents at Work: Scaffold Required
We review four clips from the Dwarkesh Patel Podcast with Satya Nadella, Microsoft's CEO. I highly recommend Dwarkesh’s show—technical & nerdy, but excellent.
Satya talks about scaffolding—the software wrapped around AI models to make them actually work.
So we speak with someone building that scaffolding: Neil McKechnie runs two AI-first startups as a CTO.
He discusses how he orchestrates up to twelve different language models—GPT-5, Claude, Gemini, Llama, Mistral, Cohere, Perplexity.
We discuss what it actually takes to build production systems with LLMs today—and what that reveals about the agent future we’re being pitched.
Dwarkesh's Podcast:
https://www.youtube.com/@DwarkeshPatel
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