Humility in the Age of Agentic Coding

Welcome to the Practical AI podcast, where we break down the real world applications of artificial intelligence and how it's shaping the way we live, work, and create. Our goal is to help make AI technology practical, productive, and accessible to everyone. Whether you're a developer, business leader, or just curious about the tech behind the buzz, you're in the right place. Be sure to connect with us on LinkedIn, x, or Blue Sky to stay up to date with episode drops, behind the scenes content, and AI insights. You can learn more at practicalai.fm. Now onto the show. Welcome to another episode of the Practical AI podcast. Podcast. This is Daniel Whitenak. I am CEO at Prediction Guard, and I'm joined as always by my cohost, Chris Benson, who's a principal AI and autonomy research engineer. How are you doing, Chris? Doing great. Enjoying, having fun, and and, gosh, gosh, the weather, where I'm at is awesome. So, like Yeah. Yeah. I had to I had to force myself to come in to do the show today. So Yeah. Yeah. I unfortunately had a a mild case of of COVID last week. And so coming into this week, it's both, like, really nice weather, and I'm over that. So I feel, like, extra boost. Welcome back. Yeah. Thanks. Thanks. It's good to be back. And, and, yeah, for our listeners, just one thing you might wanna be aware of. If you are in the San Francisco area or if you're attending RSA, I'm gonna be at the conference at at RSA, out in San Francisco March 2026. If you're listening to this years later, I won't potentially be there years later, but this year, I'll this year, I'll be there. And, and I do have, like, some some meeting space where I can meet up with people if you wanna talk about enterprise y AI things, or I'm gonna have some demos on, like, you know, AI build materials and some cool prompt injection stuff. So if you're if you're into that side of things from the security enterprise AI side, I'll I'll include the link in the show notes if people wanna figure out where to find me or or, find a time. So, look me up there. But, really, excited to to get into the conversation today. We have, an amazing guest with us, who I'm I'm excited to get to know a little bit. Really intrigued by his work, Steve Klavnik, who is a software engineer. And I'll leave it up to you, Steve. Maybe you can you can describe why Software engineer extraordinary. Software engineer extraordinary, how you ended up on a on a AI podcast, what what your background is, and, how where that intersects with AI, I guess. Yeah. Thanks, guys. I, thanks for having me. It's it's good to be here. And, yeah. I have, like, a weird background, and so I never know what to say with these kind of things. …