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Episode 124 · 26 June 2025 · 64 min

The Path to AGI: Inside Poolside’s AI Model Factory for Code with Eiso KantBuilding Human-Level AI for Code: Model Factories, RL at Scale, and Distributed Teams

Eiso Kant · CTO & co-founder

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The Path to AGI: Inside Poolside’s AI Model Factory for Code with Eiso Kant

How do you build a foundation model that can write code at a human level? Eiso Kant (CTO & co-founder, Poolside) reveals the technical architecture, distributed team strategies, and reinforcement learning breakthroughs powering one of Europe’s most ambitious AI startups. Learn how Poolside operates 10,000+ H200s, runs the world’s largest code execution RL environment, and why CTOs must rethink engineering orgs for an agent-driven future.

Chapters.

  1. 00:04:28Poolside’s unique approach to foundation models
  2. 00:13:02Scaling hardware: 10,000+ H200s and orchestration
  3. 00:17:42RL, agents, and the future of developer tools
  4. 00:24:56Immutable versioning and evaluation frameworks
  5. 00:36:04Distributed team structure and monthly sprints
  6. 00:40:26Leadership, decision-making, and low-ego culture
  7. 00:45:54Lessons for CTOs: breaking process dogma, preparing for agent-driven orgs
  8. 00:50:54The next 3 years: AGI, agent workforces, and the end of manual coding
  9. 00:53:44Context window, continual learning, and model memory
  10. 00:56:20Everything collapses into the model: product, research, and daily life
  11. 00:59:46Advice to a younger self: scale compute, trust RL+LM, and the four-minute mile

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