What OpenAI and Google engineers learned deploying 50+ AI products in production
Aishwarya Naresh Reganti and Kiriti Badam have helped build and launch more than 50 enterprise AI products across companies like OpenAI, Google, Amazon, and Databricks. Based on these experiences, they’ve developed a small set of best practices for building and scaling successful AI products. The goal of this conversation is to save you and your team a lot of pain and suffering. Listen on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts We discuss:
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Get 15% off Aishwarya and Kiriti’s Maven course, Building Agentic AI Applications with a Problem-First Approach, using this link: https://bit.ly/3V5XJFp Where to find Aishwarya Naresh Reganti:• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/areganti • GitHub: https://github.com/aishwaryanr/awesome-generative-ai-guide • X: https://x.com/aish_reganti Where to find Kiriti Badam:• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sai-kiriti-badam • X: https://x.com/kiritibadam Referenced:• LevelUp Labs: https://levelup-labs.ai/ • Why your AI product needs a different development lifecycle: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/why-your-ai-product-needs-a-different • Booking.com: https://www.booking.com • Research paper on agents in production (by Matei Zaharia’s lab): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.04123 • Matei Zaharia’s research on Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=I1EvjZsAAAAJ&hl=en • The coming AI security crisis (and what to do about it) | Sander Schulhoff: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/the-coming-ai-security-crisis • Gajen Kandiah on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gajenkandiah • Rackspace: https://www.rackspace.com • The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code | Dan Shipper (co-founder/CEO of Every): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/inside-every-dan-shipper • Semantic Diffusion: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/SemanticDiffusion.html • LMArena: https://lmarena.ai • Artificial Analysis: https://artificialanalysis.ai/leaderboards/providers • Why humans are AI’s biggest bottleneck (and what’s coming in 2026) | Alexander Embiricos (OpenAI Codex Product Lead): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/why-humans-are-ais-biggest-bottleneck • Airline held liable for its chatbot giving passenger bad advice—what this means for travellers: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240222-air-canada-chatbot-misinformation-what-travellers-should-know • Demis Hassabis on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/demishassabis • We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here’s what happened | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/we-replaced-our-sales-team-with-20-ai-agents • Socrates’s quote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_unexamined_life_is_not_worth_living • Noah Smith’s newsletter: https://www.noahpinion.blog • Silicon Valley on HBO Max: https://www.hbomax.com/shows/silicon-valley/b4583939-e39f-4b5c-822d-5b6cc186172d • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1903340/Clair_Obscur_Expedition_33/ • Wisprflow: https://wisprflow.ai • Raycast: https://www.raycast.com • Steve Jobs’s quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/463176-you-can-t-connect-the-dots-looking-forward-you-can-only Recommended books:• When Breath Becomes Air: https://www.amazon.com/When-Breath-Becomes-Paul-Kalanithi/dp/081298840X • The Three-Body Problem: https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/0765382032 • A Fire Upon the Deep: https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Upon-Deep-Zones-Thought/dp/0812515285 Production and marketing by https://penname.co/. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email podcast@lennyrachitsky.com. Lenny may be an investor in the companies discussed. My biggest takeaways from this conversation:...Subscribe to Lenny's Newsletter to unlock the rest.Become a paying subscriber of Lenny's Newsletter to get access to this post and other subscriber-only content. A subscription gets you:
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