How difficult will it be to train and build an AI Agent that has expertise in a given domain? Will it happen in the next year, or 3 years or 10 years? And who will benefit in the marketplace from his evolution?

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SHOW NOTES

• OpenAI looks to train their models to replace junior bankers

WHAT WOULD BE THE STAGES OF AN EXPERT AGENT?

• Train it on a set of standard knowledge (e.g. Masters of Accounting, Auditing, International Tax)
• Train it on a set of well-defined case studies, to provide industry context
• Train it on a set of adjacent case studies and other domains (business, law, specific industries)
• How to train corner cases?
• How to train gray areas like ethics, morality, or cost-benefit analysis?
• Who is motivated to train these experts?
• What would the cost of these experts be? Can it be similar to a human, or need to be a fraction, or a premium?
• Is there a way to build memory (e.g. experience) without disclosing client information?
• Is there a way to build shareable knowledge between agents for reinforcement training/learning?

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Dan McConnell (Senior VP Product Management at @HitachiVantara) talks about how Enterprise infrastructure is having to evolve to keep up with the data challenges of AI.

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• Hitachi Ventara (website)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background.

Topic 2 - How is AI changing the way enterprises need to think about infrastructure?

Topic 3 - What makes AI workloads so different from traditional workloads? How is AI exposing the limitations of broken cloud environments?

Topic 4 - Where are organizations feeling the most pressure? What are the biggest misconceptions enterprises have about preparing for AI?

Topic 5 - What problems come from managing separate systems? What is the biggest driving factor toward unified data platforms?

Topic 6 - How is Hitachi Vantara helping customers handle the growing infrastructure demands created by AI?

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It's been nearly a decade since the last evolution of the PaaS platform, but AI has the potential to reshape and evolve this value concept. Let's explore that's possible.

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SHOW NOTES

• Vercel v0
• Building Web Apps with just English and AI (Acquired podcast, Feb 2025)
• Vercel on The Cloudcast (2024)
• Vercel on The Cloudcast (2021)
• 8 tools to build your own PaaS (2025)

IS PAAS READY TO TAKE THE NEXT STEP?

• Where could PaaS evolve to now?
  • Can new PaaS services abstract the developer, and just focus on business logic and business ideas?
  • What languages or design patterns would be mandated? (web only, mobile only, web + mobile? )
  • Can we template “best practices” enough to be reliable?
  • Can we template compliances needed to handle financial transactions, customer data, etc.?
  • Can troubleshooting become an automated service?
• Where was PaaS in the past? (Heroku, Google AppEngine, Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes)
• Language specific
• Cloud specific
• Abstracting the infrastructure and security

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